Thanks Mikera and Andrew for the ideas. Some interesting suggestions there. I'll discuss these with my fellow devs. Much appreciated.
On Tuesday, April 15, 2014 1:14:11 AM UTC+1, Andrew Chambers wrote: > > Clojure logic programming with core.logic (something akin to a sudoku > solver https://gist.github.com/swannodette/3217582 is a good example) or > using datomic to have a database with a time machine and datalog for > queries might be cool (perhaps visualizing the data in the database at > arbitrary times in the past). Both don't really have equivalents in other > languages. Other things that are hard to achieve in other languages would > involve the immutable data structures, concurrency, and macros. > > > On Monday, April 14, 2014 9:15:31 AM UTC+12, utel wrote: >> >> A handful of developers at the organisation I work at, want to encourage >> interest in Clojure with the aim of using it in production amongst the >> organisation's wider developer community (hundreds of developers). We >> ourselves are Clojure hobbyists. >> >> We wanted to do this through a basic project (with few moving parts), so >> I wanted to get feedback on a couple of aspects: >> 1. Examples of basic project ideas that would be compelling to fellow >> developers not familiar with Clojure (e.g. something useful that you can do >> easily with Clojure that's harder to do in more established languages such >> as Java) >> 2. Particular libraries that again had a wow factor towards an objective >> not easily achievable in more established languages (perhaps related to >> data analysis, visualisation, or taking advantage of the benefit of lazy >> evaluation in a novel way as examples). >> >> I realise these questions are somewhat open-ended, but just wanted to >> spark off some ideas for us through bouncing these questions off the google >> group's members. >> >> Thanks for any leads! >> >> -- 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.
