On Tue, Sep 13, 2011 at 9:48 AM, Nathan Sorenson <n...@sfu.ca> wrote: > I adore Clojure as well, but could this success not be partially due > to the "reimplementing for the second time" phenomenon? i.e. if you re- > wrote the entire thing in Scala again, perhaps you would see similar > gains in brevity etc?
Well, the Scala world has moved on quite a bit since 2009 so I could certainly make it somewhat more concise (I'd use the parallel collections in 2.9 instead of actors and I hope there's a better SQL abstraction by now so I could drop the ResultSet collection wrapper I wrote). I doubt I could reduce it by a factor of three which is what it would take to get close to the Clojure code. I don't know who posted it on HN but I see it's also on DZone and so it's generated a lot of noise out there and now I'm probably going to do a more detailed comparison and analysis to post on my blog, to answer some of the critical voices on HN... It was intended to be purely anecdotal but that doesn't seem to satisfy anyone! :) -- Sean A Corfield -- (904) 302-SEAN An Architect's View -- http://corfield.org/ World Singles, LLC. -- http://worldsingles.com/ Railo Technologies, Inc. -- http://www.getrailo.com/ "Perfection is the enemy of the good." -- Gustave Flaubert, French realist novelist (1821-1880) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your first post. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en
