On Sat, Jul 2, 2011 at 8:56 PM, Nick Brown wrote:
> But not the "lots of developers" part. As much as I like
> Clojure, it has nowhere near the level of developers languages like
> Java or Python. And to be honest, that constraint is much more
> convincing for most software managers than the lib
"Many managers, understandably, go with a technology with
heavy library support and lots of developers. The common critique that
Lisp
isn't practical in industry, comes from that position. But Clojure,
sitting
atop the JVM, doesn't have that problem. "
The library part, ok, sure (but if I'm writin
As for whether Clojure would work in a large corporate environment (or for
large software), I think that's more a function of the internal politics of
the organization. Many managers, understandably, go with a technology with
heavy library support and lots of developers. The common critique that Li
On Jul 2, 8:33 pm, Mark Engelberg wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 2, 2011 at 12:21 PM, James Keats wrote:
> > A very recent quote by Abelson is relevant:
> > "One of the things I’m learning here (Google) is the experience of
> > working on these enormous programs. I just never experienced that
> > before.
On Sat, Jul 2, 2011 at 12:21 PM, James Keats wrote:
> A very recent quote by Abelson is relevant:
> "One of the things I’m learning here (Google) is the experience of
> working on these enormous programs. I just never experienced that
> before. Previously a large program to me was a hundred pages
