Re: Simple Made Easy - Any Examples?

2011-11-04 Thread aboy021
For me personally the main areas that Rich cited that I've not found good examples for are Rules, Set Functions, and Queues. In particular moving the rules out sounds like a great idea. I'll have a look at the projects that David suggested. -- You received this message because you are subscribed

Re: Simple Made Easy - Any Examples?

2011-11-04 Thread David Nolen
Look at the sources for ClojureScript, Ring, Clache. David On Sun, Oct 30, 2011 at 9:23 PM, aboy021 wrote: > I very much enjoyed Rich's talk on Simple Made Easy (http:// > www.infoq.com/presentations/Simple-Made-Easy). It seemed to address a > great many of the frustrations I have in software d

Re: Simple Made Easy - Any Examples?

2011-11-04 Thread Gary Trakhman
I think it's probably harder to actually show 'best practice' in a lisp than say a language like java. The notion of a design pattern can always be abstracted away with functions or macros. So, the examples I've seen so far are very small scale, eg: use lazy seqs and function composition inst

Re: Simple Made Easy - Any Examples?

2011-10-31 Thread jmis
If you want to improve then you will need to invest time understanding core development concepts.  You don't want to accidentally do the right thing because your language pushes you in that direction.  Instead, you want to purposefully do the right thing by having a good understanding of the fundam

Simple Made Easy - Any Examples?

2011-10-30 Thread aboy021
I very much enjoyed Rich's talk on Simple Made Easy (http:// www.infoq.com/presentations/Simple-Made-Easy). It seemed to address a great many of the frustrations I have in software development and offer real hope of being able to do things better. The things is, it would be really nice to have som