Re: Why is clojure so powerful?

2013-09-13 Thread John Hyaduck
Have you made the free version available yet? I would like to read it and review. John Hyaduck On Wednesday, September 4, 2013 5:32:01 PM UTC-4, Tomislav Tomšić wrote: I suspect, there are numerous possible ways to answer that question. One can ignore it, others would care to offer

Re: Why is clojure so powerful?

2013-09-13 Thread Mark C
I see Arrogance of Abstraction can be borrowed free (today only I think) by Kindle users with Amazon prime. On Friday, September 13, 2013 10:36:14 AM UTC-4, John Hyaduck wrote: Have you made the free version available yet? I would like to read it and review. John Hyaduck On Wednesday,

Re: Why is clojure so powerful?

2013-09-06 Thread Jacob Goodson
The people is not a sufficient answer(I am sure you knew that but I had to say it anyway). It is really simple... 1. Homoiconic syntax 2. meta programming facility(macros in the case of clojure but other LISP's have gone farther with this than clojure has) These two powers are what draws so

Re: Why is clojure so powerful?

2013-09-06 Thread Jacob Goodson
If you want to see a LISP that has been trying to improve LISP itself then I suggest looking at... http://shenlanguage.org/ and more specifically Shen has been ported to Java!...https://github.com/artella-coding/Shen.java Although, it desperately needs contributions(wink,wink). On Wednesday,

Re: Why is clojure so powerful?

2013-09-05 Thread Josh Kamau
The only thing more powerful than Lisp is Lisp on JVM Josh On Thu, Sep 5, 2013 at 2:29 AM, Devin Walters dev...@gmail.com wrote: Battle-tested libraries are nice, and Java has a lot of them. Clojure programmers can use all of them with relative ease. I recently tried Erlang/Elixir and was

Why is clojure so powerful?

2013-09-04 Thread Tomislav Tomšić
I suspect, there are numerous possible ways to answer that question. One can ignore it, others would care to offer superficial, no it isn't, but I guess, few would answer, it is because clojure is the member of the Lisp family of programming languages. Which immediately invites predictable

Re: Why is clojure so powerful?

2013-09-04 Thread Devin Walters
Battle-tested libraries are nice, and Java has a lot of them. Clojure programmers can use all of them with relative ease. I recently tried Erlang/Elixir and was disappointed in the library ecosystem. Another answer to why Clojure is powerful is the company it keeps. The people who work on