Re: Why I have chosen not to employ clojure

2010-03-22 Thread Joel Westerberg
I love clojure but I think it's unnecessary it doesn't ship with a simple clj and a clj.bat script out of the box, yeah it's easy to run it with jvm, but who want to type java -server -Djava.ext.dirs=./lib:/opt/bin/lib -cp ~/.emacs.d/lisp-packages/swank-clojure jline.ConsoleRunner

Re: Clojure and OOP

2010-02-11 Thread Joel Westerberg
You can work with java objects. But clojure itself is not object oriented, because it's functional, and object orientation requires state manipulation. Other lisps support object orientation, common-lisp for example. cheers, /J On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 1:46 PM, HB hubaghd...@gmail.com wrote:

Re: ANN: Web application framework (beta)

2009-11-30 Thread Joel Westerberg
Not every web application has to scale. I think that continuation based stuff rocks for adminstration interfaces. The main benefit with continuation based stuff, is that it's possible to build something that is more application like, so that one can avoid building wizards, and having to split up

Re: roll call of production use?

2009-11-29 Thread Joel Westerberg
I have written a production web app with compojure. It was a very nice experience. First project I have pulled of totally TDD and the functional aspect of clojure really makes tests so much easier and more truthful, although there sometimes seems to sneak in some exceptions I didn't expect from