Johanna, I noticed you mentioned CQRS. In my work, we use CQRS heavily, specifically the Axon framework for Java (utilizing Spring and Hibernate). I got into Clojure through watching Rich Hickey's talks and figured that any language that he wrote had to be good.
It's remarkable to me how cleanly the concepts applied in CQRS map to concepts in Clojure. The funny thing is that CQRS would never be necessary if it wasn't for languages like C# and Java. It can be discouraging to see people's eyes glaze over when you talk about code as a series of transformations on the input. Many people limit their understanding of code to a very procedural style with ifs, elses and "helper methods" that have side effects. Sorry I don't have any words of wisdom on how to evangelize Clojure, but I am glad to see someone else noted the parallels between CQRS and a more functional style of programming. Cheers! -Matt On Saturday, July 11, 2015 at 2:47:31 PM UTC-7, Johanna Belanger wrote: > > That's really cool, thanks! > > On Saturday, July 11, 2015 at 5:27:37 AM UTC-7, juvenn wrote: >> >> Hi Johanna, >> >> I don’t know if it'll work for your team, but I find Shaun Le Bron's >> "Interactive guide to Tetris in ClojureScript” the most succinct and >> beautiful way of showing power of Clojure and ClojureScript. >> >> https://github.com/shaunlebron/t3tr0s-slides >> >> Have fun! >> -- >> Juvenn Woo >> Sent with Sparrow <http://www.sparrowmailapp.com/?sig> >> >> On Saturday, 11 July, 2015 at 1:24 pm, Johanna Belanger wrote: >> >> I ended up giving him a brief description of Clojure, with stress on its >> ability to do heavy lifting with very little code, and sent him a link to >> Neal Ford's talk "The Curious Clojurist" >> <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bxLnpgnDApg>. We'll see what happens. >> Thanks everyone for your advice. >> >> On Thursday, July 9, 2015 at 3:20:23 PM UTC-7, Johanna Belanger wrote: >> >> Hi :) >> >> I've recently broached the subject of Clojure with another dev in my >> organization, and his response was basically "What's Clojure"? and I'm not >> sure how to answer that in a way that might inspire him. "It's a >> dynamically-typed functional Lisp with persistent immutable data structures >> that runs on the JVM" doesn't seem like it will grab his interest. =) >> >> I work primarily in .NET, and he does enterprise Java. I don't know him >> well enough to know how happy he is with it. He did express interest in >> learning .Net. >> >> I came to an appreciation of Clojure through >> >> -CQRS (the power of decomplection!) >> -Sussman and Abelson's SICP class at MIT online (the power of >> homoiconicity and functions!) >> -the death of Silverlight (alternatives to Javascript in the browser?) >> >> By the time I found Rich Hickey's talks (eg Simple Made Easy) I was >> pretty well primed to love Clojure. I've been using it for little personal >> projects and prototyping for a couple of years, but I haven't put it in >> production because no one else here knows it. >> >> Could anyone tell me how they got from enterprise Java to Clojure? >> >> Thanks very much, >> Johanna >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >> Groups "Clojure" group. >> To post to this group, send email to clo...@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+u...@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+u...@googlegroups.com. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> >> >> -- 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.
