Nothing I said was meant to dismiss any particular contribution(s) of any kind made by anyone.
If this was not clear, apologies. On Thursday, February 16, 2012, Gregg Williams <greg...@innerpaths.net> wrote: >> It's tiresome to hear people complain about something they do not >> contribute anything towards. > > Thank you for your extremely helpful critique. > > By the way, please go to http://www.GettingClojure.com, a web site > that I started and contributed to, which nobody (except Sean Cornfeld) > expressed any interest in. I announced GettingClojure.com on this > forum, which nobody encouraged, contributed to, or endorsed as a good > idea. (I'd be willing to transfer the domain to the right person--even > more, I'd like to see the site be a good place for newcomers to go.) > > BTW, a guy named David Sletten contributed 29 (I counted them) entries > to a fledgling Clojure Cookbook, which made a good start on what could > be a good newcomer resource. > > And I did say that I wrote an article about a nontrivial aspect of > Clojure that I found *no* documentation or hints about anywhere on the > Internet? See http://pragprog.com/magazines/2010-11/getting-clojure if > you're interested; its real title is "Extending Java Classes Using > Proxy." (I invite feedback on this, as well.) > > Yes, a few people have been helpful, but is it any surprise that I > have called the Clojure community "newcomer-hostile"? (See my post, > which is part of this thread: > http://groups.google.com/group/clojure/browse_thread/thread/f97699164e9be29e/a9b91350905109b1?lnk=gst&q=Gregg+Williams#a9b91350905109b1 > ) > > For future reference: I invite you to be less dismissive of someone > who would like to be of help. To quote from the abovementioned thread: > >> I hope you can see that I'm saying these things only because I *want* >> to see Clojure succeed. The community's "we're-all-experts-here" >> mindset is driving newcomers away. (By all right, I should have been >> one of them--but I'm an extremely stubborn cuss.) > > -- > 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 > -- 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
