Re: Origin for Clojure using the term 'vector' instead of 'array'?

2015-10-03 Thread Daniel Barlow
Common Lisp also has multi dimensional arrays and one - dimensional vectors. I believe Rich was pretty familiar with that language in a former life http://clhs.lisp.se/Body/t_array.htm On 3 Oct 2015 15:44, "Erik Price" wrote: > I always assumed it was because vectors have similar properties to

Re: Experiencing extremely slow performance on raspberry pi (model b)

2014-05-12 Thread Daniel Barlow
On 12 May 2014 10:40, C K Kashyap wrote: > I finally got my robotic vehicle working using raspberry pi. I was hoping to > make it do tricks using the clojure repl - however, I found that repl took > well over 2 minutes to start. Is that normal or are folks seeing better > performance? I haven't t

Re: clojure.io

2012-03-11 Thread Daniel Barlow
On Sat, Mar 10, 2012 at 9:41 PM, Brian Goslinga wrote: > There is a trade off here. If you want to be very portable you'll end up > with something like the CL path API because you need logicals and file > revisions to really support VMS, for example. > In a former life I spent more time than I no

Re: Best definition of "ClojureScript" in one sentence

2012-02-27 Thread Daniel Barlow
I'd suggest that it's a continuum not a dichotomy, but one convenient place to draw an arbitrary line is whether you think it sane and sensible to use debugging facilities designed for the target language or whether you view that as akin to debugging a c program by inspecting the disassembly. (of

Re: Best definition of "ClojureScript" in one sentence

2012-02-27 Thread Daniel Barlow
On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 10:45 AM, Raju Bitter wrote: > Quotes: > "ClojureScript is a dialect of Clojure that targets JavaScript as a > deployment platform." > > "ClojureScript allows to write code using the Clojure language and > compile it to Javascript." > > "ClojureScript is a new compiler for