Gah - 5547 production, 2600 of tests. A lot of that discrepancy is down to the very extensive documentation that https://github.com/gdeer81/marginalia allows you to write.
Please forgive any other mistakes, working on less than an hours sleep due to my lovely kids. On Wednesday, 9 April 2014 09:14:38 UTC+1, Colin Yates wrote: > > Hello back! > > We are using Clojure on the JVM as the implementation language for a > platform that will underpin our applications for the next decade. It is > relatively new and so far we have implemented the analysis module which is > essentially a generic charting engine. > > So far we have 5547 lines of production code (including comments) and 2600 > lines of production code (including comments). > > That doesn't sound like much but I can tell you it is replacing a similar, > but slightly smaller in scope analysis module written in Java which was > around 40K lines of production code. > > Our architecture is Clojure on the back end exporting a number of JSON end > points. It is backed by MS SQL using the fantastic > https://github.com/jkk/honeysql library. > > For me, it is a dream coming from Java (and to a much lesser extent > Scala), but it does have its costs. Moving from an OO world to an FP world > isn't easy, particularly in the shapes your solutions end up with. I am > also feeling the pain of not having types - everything is a sequence. This > is a joy but it also means a whole bunch of information (i.e. type > information) is lost. > > One of the wins in OO languages is the many number of places to hang > semantic information - the name of the class, the structure of the class, > the names of the methods etc. I also find many more intermediary variables > in OO where as in Clojure it seems more idiomatic to have pipelines of > transformation. I am feeling the lost of static types as I refactor APIs > particularly. > > This is undoubtedly my failing not Clojure's and I just need to absorb > more good FP paradigms. Would I give up my emacs and Clojure and paredit > combination? Not a chance :). > > Col > > On Tuesday, 8 April 2014 20:23:06 UTC+1, Anthony Ortiz wrote: >> >> Hello world! >> >> I'm a C# developer who recently went to an interview at a major bank here >> in NYC and found that they've been using Clojure for their business logic >> for over a year already and that got me curious, so I find myself on >> unfamiliar territory learning how to program in a functional language. So >> far so good, Moxley Stratton's online tutorial combined with Try Clojure >> (the online interpreter) has been very helpful (kudos to you guys!) and I'm >> now going through the book 'Programming Clojure'. So far I've seen a lot of >> utility/academic examples such as fibonacci but little in the way of an >> actual real-world example of a top-to-bottom desktop application built >> using Clojure on either the JVM or CLR, something simple that would >> demonstrate how Clojure fits into the event-driven model on the client-side >> behind, let's say, WPF, and how it would interact with more Clojure on the >> service-side via, let's say, WCF. Does anyone know of an example they can >> direct me to? >> >> Many thanks! >> >> Anthony >> > -- 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 unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
