Re: [ANN] Clojure 1.10.2-alpha1

2020-03-13 Thread Duke
Thanks for the heads up! Need some advice though - if I may. Being a clojure/lein newbie, I'm not sure how to tell Lein that I've just DLed the latest, bleeding-edge version of clojure. And while I'm at it, to what directory on my Win10 box should I have DLed 1.10.2-alpha1 to? Thanks in adv

Emacs-cider

2020-03-13 Thread Duke
The emacs-cider combo chokes with an error to the effect that cider-nrepl could not be loaded. I'm on a Win10 box. Would someone point m to a possible solution please. Thx. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send

Re: Emacs-cider

2020-03-13 Thread Duke
6.0 ;; Clojure 1.10.0, Java 1.8.0_241 On Friday, 13 March 2020 12:58:52 UTC-6, Alex Miller wrote: > > It would probably help to include any error information for someone to > learn more about the problem. > > On Friday, March 13, 2020 at 1:54:40 PM UTC-5, Duke wrote: >> >>

Re: "I don't feel the absence of a debugger, because I've learnt enough that I don't ever need a debugger."

2013-05-30 Thread Raoul Duke
for a long time haskell did not have a debugger. that sucked, imho. -- -- 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 wi

Re: Why aim for repeatability of specification / generative testing?

2013-06-06 Thread Raoul Duke
i always thought it was basically solely for letting you re-run the test that just/previously failed, nothing more weird or silly than that. -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.

Re: Why aim for repeatability of specification / generative testing?

2013-06-06 Thread Raoul Duke
yes, a constant is weird. whenever i've implemented my own variant of this, i always use a seed from the clock or whatever, and then spit out the seed in test/assertion failure messages so people can paste it back in to reproduce. -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the

Re: Why the CLR languages fail?

2013-06-07 Thread Raoul Duke
> Be that as it may: if you work in a MS-centric company, shifting to JVM > clojure is iffy at best. OTOH, convincing people who've never used anything > except C# that there are alternatives worth considering is quite an uphill > battle. At least one friend over the years has gotten fed up at my >

Re: possible side-effect/problem in http://clojure.org/concurrent_programming

2013-06-14 Thread Raoul Duke
> But only one task was active at a time, although Executors was configured > with 4 threads. It occurred to me that map itself is lazy and it is realized > in doseq one at a time. A possible fix is to use for instead of map to > generate tasks almost makes me wish there were types (er, sorry, me

Re: In what OS do you code?

2013-06-14 Thread Raoul Duke
> Thanks for all the responses, it looks like Linux is the predominant OS in > the Clojure community. er, wow. that's a bit of a leap, isn't it? -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to clojure@googleg

Re: [ANN] 美味しいClojure

2013-10-03 Thread Raoul Duke
an olide: http://www.starling-software.com/en/tsac.html. i went once when in town years back. it was fun. wish it were still going on. -- -- 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 No

Re: is PG's "imperative outside-in" advice any good?

2013-10-15 Thread Raoul Duke
if a programming language doesn't have something like 'where', then i am sad. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4362328/haskell-where-vs-let -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups

Re: multimethod, record, type, and protocol pitfalls?

2014-10-27 Thread Raoul Duke
> Notice that he intentionally left "inheritance" out from that definition. there are more connotations of "object oriented" than there are quills on a porcupine. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to cl

Re: multimethod, record, type, and protocol pitfalls?

2014-10-27 Thread Raoul Duke
> Sure. But since Alan Kay is the guy who invented the term "object oriented", > I guess his definition should be, at least, considered. > It seems that nowadays that only Java is properly "object oriented". This is > far from true. i suspect you read my note as trying to pick a side. -- You re

Re: CCW bug [SEVERE]

2014-10-28 Thread Raoul Duke
> I remain wholly unconvinced that it's worth the hassle for a project this > small. personally i find your points persuasive; i hate going through that stuff when i just wanted to finish a feature or whatever. still, losing your code would suck a lot, and not having history can be a frustrating t

Re: If code is data why do we use text editors?

2014-11-14 Thread Raoul Duke
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intentional_programming -- 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

Re: If code is data why do we use text editors?

2014-11-17 Thread Raoul Duke
> Code is data, and sometimes the best way to format that data for human > readability is sufficiently ad-hoc that no autoindent/pprinter could do a > fully general good job. +1 there should therefore be a region annotation that tells IDEs to leave it the hell alone when the user invokes "reinden

Re: [ANN] silc - a tiny entity database for clojure (games)

2014-12-02 Thread Raoul Duke
> Actually, I would just use Long's. (MAX_VALUE = 9223372036854775807) https://www.google.com/search?q=youtube+gangnam+overflow -- 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 po

Re: Zelkova: Elm-style FRP for Clojure and ClojureScript

2014-12-06 Thread Raoul Duke
> From what I understand it's conceptually not ready for anything other > than toy problems yet. Like Elm's restriction on static flow graphs. It's > like programming without 1st class functions, you don't get very far. I am not an Elm user, but I am on the mailing list :-) and I see real things

Re: Zelkova: Elm-style FRP for Clojure and ClojureScript

2014-12-06 Thread Raoul Duke
i guess "big projects" at the bottom of http://elm-lang.org/Examples.elm -- 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 w

Re: Embedded systems and transpiling Clojure to Nim

2015-05-01 Thread Raoul Duke
> Another possibility is https://github.com/takeoutweight/clojure-scheme. It > compiles Clojure to Gambit Scheme to C to metal. another possibility is to stab oneself in the eye with a sharp stick. just sayin'. :-) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "C

Re: Embedded systems and transpiling Clojure to Nim

2015-05-01 Thread Raoul Duke
I just would guess that anything other than an embedded JVM would be... poor r.o.i., to be polite. -- 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 moder

Re: Embedded systems and transpiling Clojure to Nim

2015-05-01 Thread Raoul Duke
all i'm trying to say is that the more layers of indirection you add, the more i won't give you any money on kickstarter. -- 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 fro

Re: Embedded systems and transpiling Clojure to Nim

2015-05-01 Thread Raoul Duke
> Both Nim and Pixie ultimately compile to C, and would have just as many > layers of indirection. aand they are all insane for anything other than learning themselves at this point, i'd hazard to guess. but i'm a realist, who knows. i'd rather go for a real jvm e.g. azul's embedded stuff, or

Re: Embedded systems and transpiling Clojure to Nim

2015-05-01 Thread Raoul Duke
My goodness, there are other things than Clojure in the universe. People have been making "native" software with "real" languages for ages. There's probably even some that are fpish or heck go get an actual lisp that's been used for ever (franz, allegro, ecl, gambit, chicken, clozure, tinyscheme, e

Re: I wrote a functional Lisp in Clojure. Come have a look

2015-05-04 Thread Raoul Duke
re: lux -- keen! also, check out http://shenlanguage.org/, it has a clojure target in the works. -- 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 moderat

Re: Clojure needs a web framework with more momentum

2015-05-04 Thread Raoul Duke
>> vulnerabilities that would not exist using an integrated framework. fwiw, web + security always makes me think of http://liftweb.net/ -- 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 Not

Re: Clojure needs a web framework with more momentum

2015-05-04 Thread Raoul Duke
> Can you elaborate? Lift got it right or was a disaster? oh! good question, sorry :-) i believe it got it far more right than wrong. -- 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

Re: Clojure needs a web framework with more momentum

2015-05-04 Thread Raoul Duke
> Yes, Play has overtaken Lift, not because it is necessarily better, but > because TypeSafe are pouring marketing dollars into it, as part of their > drive to encourage Enterprise uptake of Scala. They have a vested interest in > Play being very successful as it will drive more business for the

how goeth the STM experiment?

2015-05-05 Thread Raoul Duke
hi, What do people think of STM after all these years? What pros vs. cons are there - has the community evolved the list of them? thanks for any thoughts. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to clojure@g

Re: how goeth the STM experiment?

2015-05-06 Thread Raoul Duke
Thanks for the thoughts! If anybody also has any other STM experience (e.g. Haskell?) to compare/contrast, that would be nifty to hear. -- 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

Re: shenandoah

2014-03-12 Thread Raoul Duke
> bazillion pure functions. I was wondering, would a GC like this one(or > Azul's) make a significant impact so that I, or others, could make games in > a more pure fashion? I WANT MY EFFIN PURITY! i'd rather have linear types or something like that, than some gc solution. :-) i mean, if i'm dre

Re: shenandoah

2014-03-12 Thread Raoul Duke
> pure way or the mutate objects in place way? I can get great performance > with clojure, no doubt about it, by violating the shat out of functional > programming. I can not get great performance with the beautiful, pure, > composable, clojure that I desire! (personally i think this is a great

Re: shenandoah

2014-03-13 Thread Raoul Duke
(related: asteroids in cal, by way of haskell. http://s3.amazonaws.com/ns999/cal.html) -- 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 - pleas

Re: STM and persistent data structures performance on mutli-core archs

2014-03-14 Thread Raoul Duke
cough cough erlang cough ahem -- 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 t

Re: STM and persistent data structures performance on mutli-core archs

2014-03-14 Thread Raoul Duke
>> cough cough erlang cough ahem > Care to elaborate? :-) "Now his point is that GC acts a super GIL which effectively kills all the hard work done on the language and application design level." erlang's approach to gc / sharing data / multi process / smp is i think an interesting sweet spot. the

Re: STM and persistent data structures performance on mutli-core archs

2014-03-14 Thread Raoul Duke
i am probably out of my depth here, i do not have extensive real-world experience with the various ways to approach parallelism and concurrency (to be distinguished of course), more run of the mill stuff. so if i sound like i'm missing your point or am clueless i ask for your patience :-) > What's

Re: STM and persistent data structures performance on mutli-core archs

2014-03-14 Thread Raoul Duke
> that closely match or can be massaged to match or 'have sympathy' for the > hardware realities. I think this can get lost when we stray too far. i wish this were somehow more modeled, composed, and controllable up in our ides and source code, rather than being esoteric tweaky options in the var

Re: shenandoah

2014-03-14 Thread Raoul Duke
> unreachable. The "normal" GC would then have a lot less to do, helping > achieve shorter pauses. i have long wondered a similar wonder. :-) (i also naively day-dream one could get the C# "IDisposing" style for free with something like that.) the BitC folks have talked about all sorts of things a

Re: STM and persistent data structures performance on mutli-core archs

2014-03-18 Thread Raoul Duke
> some sort of FSM. Perhaps concurrency could be modeled using FSMs, but I do > not believe it is always a simple transition. http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~stevez/papers/LZ06b.pdf :-) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group

Re: STM and persistent data structures performance on mutli-core archs

2014-03-18 Thread Raoul Duke
> The thing is that our industry is based on layers upon layers of > abstractions, whether at the physical level (integrated circuits, > interfaces, etc.) or at the software level: binary (1GL) abstracted into > assembly (2GL), then C language (3GL), etc. Virtual machines is now another you maybe

Re: STM and persistent data structures performance on mutli-core archs

2014-03-19 Thread Raoul Duke
> I like FSMs, but they do not compose well. some have argued for generative grammars that generate the fsm, because it is generally easier to compose grammars, and then generate the final fsm. iiuc. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To

Re: Concurrently updating two structures

2014-03-21 Thread Raoul Duke
> update them one at a time. Obviously, I do not want to write something that > updates the enemies and, after the enemies are fully updated, the bullets > get updated. I need something that updates enemies while updating the > bullets, at the same time. Maybe a code example would help? er... i

Re: Concurrently updating two structures

2014-03-21 Thread Raoul Duke
> I am just using this as a learning exercise, I do not need to be lectured > about how to write a game loop... I said obviously since that was my > original request, I am only asking to learn clojure a little better. I > could just drop into java and write a serial loop that does this really fas

Re: deep thinking

2014-05-02 Thread Raoul Duke
> This is code Clojure programmers depend on to work. Are you suggesting > that it is easier to read this code than a few paragraphs of natural > language? > > I must say I really find it puzzling that there is so much > resistance to writing words. It's not that hard. if the code is so bad that i

Re: Clojure: Clojure.contrib.sql: How do I update ALL the rows of a database table?

2014-06-26 Thread Raoul Duke
er, should the various pages be updated to say that they are all super deprecated now? e.g. things that turn up in google: http://dev.clojure.org/display/doc/Clojure+Contrib+Libraries On Thu, Jun 26, 2014 at 3:58 PM, Sean Corfield wrote: > Clojure Contrib libraries are all deprecated and very out

Re: [Request for Feedback] Clojure Lab: IDE for Clojure in Clojure

2014-06-27 Thread Raoul Duke
why does it require java 1.7? this newish mavericks macbook only has 1.6 so i would guess you've just made it hard for a lot of people to try this out? :-( -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to clojure@go

Re: [Request for Feedback] Clojure Lab: IDE for Clojure in Clojure

2014-06-27 Thread Raoul Duke
ugh, thanks. nice how i can just update it with app store. oh, wait?? -- 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

Re: [Request for Feedback] Clojure Lab: IDE for Clojure in Clojure

2014-06-27 Thread Raoul Duke
> I've been on Java 8 on my development Mac for ages. The only thing holding > us back from going to Java 8 in production is New Relic don't yet support > it... > > We upgraded our entire stack to Java 7 back in October and I thought we were > late since Java 6 had been EOL'd for so long :) i'm on

Re: An Averaging function

2014-07-10 Thread Raoul Duke
here are some related resources (books, videos). imbibe all of these and it might help. http://realmofracket.com/ http://landoflisp.com/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1023970 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group

Re: Critiques of "my-flatten" which uses CPS

2014-07-17 Thread Raoul Duke
> http://clojure.org/reducers i dare say the "When to use" part should not be at the bottom but come right after the otherwise laughably specious "yielding code that will get faster automatically as machines get more cores". -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google G

Re: What is a real example of the Observer pattern?

2015-05-07 Thread Raoul Duke
Observer is often used in Java & iOS-Objective-C & Android-Java. As with any "eventing" kind of thing it is a very double-edged tool. -- 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 t

Re: What does ^:internal mean?

2015-05-12 Thread Raoul Duke
even github gets it totally wrong, apparently? https://github.com/laurentpetit/ccw/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=%22^%3Ainternal%22&type=Code because, you know, it isn't as if github is mostly all about hosting *code*. such that, you know, you'd think they'd have realized by now this kind of feature i

Re: What does ^:internal mean?

2015-05-12 Thread Raoul Duke
knowing how to break down Clojure's syntax a bit helps, too. which means newbies are kinda screwed until they divine this. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8920137/clojure-caret-as-a-symbol -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to

Re: Why does the following Clojure code take 10x the time the C# version does? How to improve the Clojure version?

2015-05-14 Thread Raoul Duke
Ditto F# vs. C#. One has to wonder when / where / if functional-pure-immutable approaches will ever under the covers get "fast enough"? -- 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

Re: separation of concerns w/o encapsulation

2015-05-14 Thread Raoul Duke
> Once an engineer comes to grok FP, they tend to organize code around how > data 'flows' between these pure functions to produce output data. The > structure of how functions connect to form the structure of a functional > computation has typically been informal. Until now see Flow Based Prog

Re: Why does the following Clojure code take 10x the time the C# version does? How to improve the Clojure version?

2015-05-14 Thread Raoul Duke
> I.e. your time is better spent optimizing a fn that's called 1k times per > second and it's a little slow (for example, missing a type hint and has to > do reflection or using boxed math) vs. a fn that's very slow but is only > called once a minute. not all apps, and not all developers, end up w

re: functional == slow

2015-05-15 Thread Raoul Duke
at least, it often feels like that is the practical reality cf. clojure vs. java; f# vs. c#; haskell vs. c -- oh, wait a minute: http://www.cs.ru.nl/P.Achten/IFL2013/symposium_proceedings_IFL2013/ifl2013_submission_20.pdf -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Group

Re: let vs. let*

2015-06-18 Thread Raoul Duke
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=clojure+%22let+vs.+let*%22 -- 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

Re: Writing REST api the right way

2015-06-24 Thread Raoul Duke
> 350ms sounds fast enough for a low-frequency user interaction. In fact, once > login is fast enough not to annoy your users, you don't *want* any more > speed from it, as further speedup then only benefits blackhats trying to > brute-force one of your users' accounts. So, it might be a feature, n

Re: Writing REST api the right way

2015-06-24 Thread Raoul Duke
> That would apply to common actions like typing and entering. Login being > slower than that isn't likely to be as much of a bother as you likely only > do it infrequently, maybe as much as once a day if you're paranoid and clear > cookies nightly. Yeah, to me that is the sort of reasoning that l

Re: let vs. let*

2015-06-25 Thread Raoul Duke
My apologies (sincerely). Won't use that again. -- 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

Re: Advice on introducing a Java dev to Clojure

2015-07-09 Thread Raoul Duke
> and I need to be 10 times more productive. =) you mean, after your 2 week ramp-up time, right? -- 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 modera

Re: [ANN] sniper, emacs assistant for deleting dead code

2015-07-29 Thread Raoul Duke
> Inspired by YAGNI, I made this code analyzer and emacs assistant for > deleting dead code (and then used it to delete 10% of our codebase): oh, i thought the punch line was it was either going to delete you, or delete itself ;-) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the G

Re: Puzzlement over closing core.async channels asynchronously

2015-09-17 Thread Raoul Duke
> Thanks for the rapid response! You could say that you put this in there as > an exercise for the viewer; I know that in discussing it amongst ourselves, > we definitely sharpened our understanding of some of the concepts. I guess I'd see it as an argument for static checking around concurrency,

Re: Writing Friendlier Clojure

2015-10-08 Thread Raoul Duke
blah. "Whenever you notice this pattern, you can probably turn to one of the threading macros instead." that would fly in the face of being more declarative; when we start to put in explicit ordering, instead of leaving it as just relationships, that can be bad. of course it can also be good. eve

Re: How to do functional programming

2015-10-08 Thread Raoul Duke
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=amit+clojure+book http://www.htdp.org/ http://realmofracket.com/about.html http://landoflisp.com http://book.realworldhaskell.org/ http://www.powells.com/biblio/9781617290657 etc. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" gro

Re: How to do functional programming

2015-10-08 Thread Raoul Duke
> The way I like to think about FP vs OO is that OO usually couples state with > identity and the code that operates on both, while FP defines a clear > boundary between data, state, and the functions that operate on the data. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expression_problem > Designing a FP prog

Re: How to do functional programming

2015-10-08 Thread Raoul Duke
> https://tbaldridge.pivotshare.com/media/oop-lesson-1/28290 > I do not remember if the other tutorials (2,3 and 4) on OOP are free as > well… i did this one a while back as a refresher on my university stuff :-) https://www.coursera.org/course/progfun -- You received this message because you a

Re: How to do functional programming

2015-10-08 Thread Raoul Duke
heck if you pay me U$D120 an hour, you can send me your code (as long as it isn't more than a single page at 10 pt font, with regular formatting ;-) and i'll tell ya how to do it more FPish (kidding.) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojur

Re: How to do functional programming

2015-10-08 Thread Raoul Duke
> https://www.coursera.org/course/proglang cool. thanks for the pointer, i will have to find the time. -- 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

Re: Ted Dziuba: The S in REST

2015-10-13 Thread Raoul Duke
The thought that came to my mind when reading it was something like, "Hasn't anybody heard of MVCC?" -- 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 mod

Re: If a Java function seems to never return, how do I test?

2015-11-02 Thread Raoul Duke
flush twice, oracle is far far away? -- 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

mbrace style integration?

2015-11-02 Thread Raoul Duke
hi, ignorant question from me: F#/dotnet has 'mbrace' which lets you, apparently, *super* easily spawn things off to a cluster (cloud based). Instead of doing async { /*worker code*/ }; you do cloud { /*worker code*/ }; and all the management of getting it sent to the cloud, run, and back is auto

Re: Data visualization workshops post-mortem

2015-11-19 Thread Raoul Duke
Wow, thank you for sharing the info! Cool. -- 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 unsub

Re: Ultralight Components

2015-11-23 Thread Raoul Duke
re: mixins, traits, etc. those terms have all been used in both research & shipped languages. Please see e.g. how Scala evolved with those terms. :) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegro

Re: ANN replikativ 0.1.0 - strong eventual consistent P2P replication for clj and cljs

2016-01-22 Thread Raoul Duke
http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/search/node/crdt nice to see powerful theory being made more practically available to us masses. ;-) -- 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 tha

Re: blank? implementation

2013-01-15 Thread Raoul Duke
> Quite a difference I have to say. well, you can still be happy that "first, get it right. then, make it fast" is still easier in clojure than in java! (of course if, like me, you are a static typing bigot, there's more to be said on that :-) -- You received this message because you are subscri

Re: ANN How To Make Your Open Source Project Awesome (or: Not Suck)

2013-04-19 Thread Raoul Duke
hooray! right on! testify, brother!!! -- -- 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 unsubs

Re: Design/structure for a game loop in clojure

2013-05-20 Thread Raoul Duke
potential food for thought for you: http://s3.amazonaws.com/ns999/asteroids.html http://prog21.dadgum.com/23.html http://world.cs.brown.edu/ -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.

Re: New Matrix Multiplication benchmarks - Neanderthal up to 60 times faster than core.matrix with Vectorz

2016-03-14 Thread Raoul Duke
Awesome would be a way for Cojure to generate C (perhaps with e.g. Boehm–Demers–Weiser GC to get it kicked off) and JNI bindings all automagically. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegrou

Re: Clojure as first language

2016-03-19 Thread Raoul Duke
one word: redstone. -- 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,

my new favorite s-expr video (seriously)

2016-03-29 Thread Raoul Duke
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HnZipJOan54 -- 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 unsu

Re: Memory Locality - Maps vs. Vectors vs. Transient Maps & Vectors

2016-04-20 Thread Raoul Duke
You can only tell by benchmarking. And even then it can change when you move to different hardware. You can debate about big O and constant factors and numa and all that jazz till you are blue in the face. There are 3 kinds of people in the world: 1) those who think we should stick with arrays bec

Re: Porting Clojure to Native Platforms

2016-04-25 Thread Raoul Duke
things like robovm are another possible approach. -- 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. T

Re: Porting Clojure to Native Platforms

2016-04-25 Thread Raoul Duke
> The main motivation would be performance gains. blah? so many impedance mismatches and layers of indirection that i don't think it will gain much? i mean, it would probably be better to spend time tuning gc parameters or something. just a rant / guess. e.g. robovm is for some use cases perfectly

Re: Porting Clojure to Native Platforms

2016-04-26 Thread Raoul Duke
RC & GC might complement. Don't throw out RC. Also, there are different kinds of 'performance'. Horses for courses, you know. https://www.google.com/search?q=bacon+gc+reference+counting+equation -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post

Re: Porting Clojure to Native Platforms

2016-04-26 Thread Raoul Duke
Horses for courses. Ask all the game people who use Lua big time. :-) -- 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

Re: Porting Clojure to Native Platforms

2016-04-26 Thread Raoul Duke
> Sorry, never heard of horses for courses. Does it mean sth like different > strokes for different folks? yessir. -- 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

Re: Addressing Matthias Felleisen's concerns?

2016-05-09 Thread Raoul Duke
(Did he mention Wadler? Probably. http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/2538) I have it from friends who have used TR "in anger" that it is not really a win. My own experience with other things, e.g. the typed stuff in the lands of JavaScript and TypedLua, is in line with that, unfortunately. http:/

Re: I knew that primitives were better, but this is ridiculous

2016-05-12 Thread Raoul Duke
y'know, if only there were something, i dunno, something static that could you know have some, i dunno, 'types' that would help annotate things such that at maybe compile time, we'd know if the things we're handling are lazy or boxed or whatever-else or not. -- You received this message because

Re: I knew that primitives were better, but this is ridiculous

2016-05-12 Thread Raoul Duke
On Thu, May 12, 2016 at 2:59 PM, Nicola Mometto wrote: > Static types wouln't have helped at all in this case. Types are about > correctness, not performances. This comment was needless Here I thought maybe knowing when something was or was not something could have been useful in, you know, maki

Re: I knew that primitives were better, but this is ridiculous

2016-05-12 Thread Raoul Duke
On Thu, May 12, 2016 at 3:11 PM, Nicola Mometto wrote: > Fair enough, but in this case types wouldn't really have helped: the author > did use `Double` type hints, mistakenly assuming that would make its code use > primitive types, which it does not since `Double` is boxed and not primitive. > C

Re: Having trouble doing what I want using macros, is there a better way?

2016-06-10 Thread Raoul Duke
My $0.02 is only resort to macros when all else has failed. Can just higher order functions and composition and injection get you closer to what you want? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to clojure@goo

RE: Frustrations so far

2016-07-22 Thread Raoul Duke
Unfortunately, dynamically typed most often means what you are experiencing, as far as I know. Python, JavaScript, Scheme, Lua, etc. all have something like NPE that can happen at any random time, it feels like, no? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "C

Re: Multi-OS Engine | Intel(R) Software

2016-08-09 Thread Raoul Duke
Whatever happened to Defrac, anyway? -- 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

Re: complex made simple?

2016-10-14 Thread Raoul Duke
we need the TRIZ of software :-/ -- 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 fro

was Re: ANN: Orchestra, complete instrumentation for clojure.spec

2017-04-06 Thread Raoul Duke
I am writing to ignorantly sincerely ask how spec + Orchestra compares to other statically typed out of the box JVM languages. What are the succint wins over not Scala shudder but eg Kotlin Ceylon, heck Frege, et. al.? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "

Re: State & GUIs

2017-12-02 Thread Raoul Duke
random tangential food for thought: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!searchin/elm-discuss/Discussion$20on$20saying$20farewell$20to$20FRP$20|sort:relevance/elm-discuss/6U74_aNXC04/UY8dIIh-CQAJ -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to

Re: Port graphs: What would Rich Hickey do?

2018-01-01 Thread Raoul Duke
€0.02 i like option #3, i think it would be possibly nice for edges to be named based on the ports they connect. -- 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 mem

Re: Two Senior Clojure developers based in Moscow looking for the interesting challenges and possibility for remote work

2018-08-03 Thread Raoul Duke
what happened after they, "walked into a bar"? -- 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 u

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