I recently took the plunge into learning Clojure and love it. Since I
tend to be single-minded/all-or-nothing about these things I'm now
finding it very difficult to switch mindset when I have to work with
Ruby. Anyone else experienced this? If you get deeply into a programming
language it
Maybe don't switch mindset? Write code that looks like idiomatic ruby but
has what appears to rubyists as QWAN.
I think it's possible and maybe even desirable for bad things to feel more
foreign when your understanding increases.
On Tue, Jan 14, 2014 at 2:01 PM, gvim gvi...@gmail.com wrote:
I
I have felt your pain. I started life with Smalltalk and more or less
spent the last 15 years in Java. When I started Clojure, it was very hard
to break my thinking habits. Particularly, I was lost without manifest
typing. I didn't realize how much types documented my system and allowed
It's been the other way round for me. I always felt Ruby was doing too
much under the hood. So much so that I bought Ruby Under A Microscope
just to find out what was going on. I found it very easy to switch to
Clojure because everything is so much more transparent. Now Ruby just
feels awkward
I misread the critical piece of your post :) You are, indeed, a step ahead
of me
On Tuesday, January 14, 2014 11:30:13 AM UTC-8, g vim wrote:
It's been the other way round for me. I always felt Ruby was doing too
much under the hood. So much so that I bought Ruby Under A Microscope
just
+1 here. I'm afraid the only solution I've found is to stop writing
Ruby. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
On Tue, Jan 14, 2014 at 2:39 PM, Mark markaddle...@gmail.com wrote:
I misread the critical piece of your post :) You are, indeed, a step ahead
of me
On Tuesday, January 14, 2014 11:30:13 AM UTC-8, g vim
On Jan 14, 2014, at 2:01 PM, gvim gvi...@gmail.com wrote:
I recently took the plunge into learning Clojure and love it. Since I tend to
be single-minded/all-or-nothing about these things I'm now finding it very
difficult to switch mindset when I have to work with Ruby. Anyone else
No, you're probably right. It's just that there never seem to be enough
hours in a day/life :(
gvim
On 14/01/2014 20:26, Bob Hutchison wrote:
No it’s not just you. Hardly! However, I’d caution you against allowing this
situation to continue. Preference is one thing. Isolating yourself from
On Jan 14, 2014, at 3:46 PM, gvim gvi...@gmail.com wrote:
No, you're probably right. It's just that there never seem to be enough hours
in a day/life :(
You’re not alone there either :-)
Cheers,
Bob
gvim
On 14/01/2014 20:26, Bob Hutchison wrote:
No it’s not just you. Hardly!
