How to go about 'proving' why dynamically typed languages are better

2013-10-06 Thread Brad Bowman
> zcaudate Oct 05 08:35PM -0700 I'm a little bit miffed over this current craze of `types` and `correctness` of programs. It smells to me of the whole `object` craze of the last two decades. I agree that types (like objects) have their uses, especially in very well defined problems, but they hav

Re: What people want from Clojure error messages

2013-01-24 Thread brad bowman
On Friday, January 25, 2013 6:27:48 AM UTC+11, Michael Klishin wrote: [..] > Because poor error messages primarily trip newcomers to the language, > I am a bit surprised to see this issue discussed on the closed > mailing list said beginners cannot join [quickly or at all]. > > So, if you have so

Re: A tutorial for how to setup your clojure development environment for: Emacs, Leiningen and Linux.

2012-06-22 Thread brad bowman
On Thursday, June 21, 2012 12:58:19 PM UTC+10, John Gabriele wrote: > > On Jun 18, 10:23 pm, Chris Zheng wrote: > > {snip} > > So basically, if a 'lead clojure evangelist' can either 'officially' or > > 'unofficially' recommend ONE emacs setup, along with a bunch of > > videos/tutorials that d