Comments on: Thoughts on Clojure

By: roger

roger — Thu, 09 Sep 2010 03:37:41 +0000

So what’s your take on Scala? Not as “fun, interesting, and pragmatic”?
-r

By: Sahil

Sahil — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 17:08:22 +0000

Nice!
I am definitely going to give it a shot.

By: How to setup Clojure from scratch

How to setup Clojure from scratch — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 18:46:42 +0000

[...] Wikibooks as a base, but I built on top of it , so as to customize and improve it.'; My previous post about Clojure generated quite a bit of interest, so I thought I’d follow it up with something a bit more [...]

By: Dave

Dave — Sat, 10 Jul 2010 04:48:52 +0000

There’s an interesting dissection of the SE Radio interview by Rich Hickey (clojure author) here:

http://whiley.org/2010/06/23/rich-hickey-on-clojure-se-radio/

This talks a lot on the advantages of using values and pure functions, compared with the normal OO approach.

By: John Smith

John Smith — Sat, 10 Jul 2010 00:43:23 +0000

I also find Clojure to be the most fun, interesting and pragmatic.

Immutable data structures they actually made it work in log32n.

lazy / infinite sequences and memoization – a nice powerful way to solve problems.

Destructuring and sequence comprehension – a wonderful mechanism that lets me clearly express how I want to deal with my data.

No one notices () after the first 2 weeks. Use an editor that colors them if you like.

I get more done in a day using Clojure (by far) than I could in a day using any other language over the past 20 years. Any my Clojure code is better designed and has less bugs and performs better given the same effort.

Rich’s videos on Clojure are a great way to enlighten yourself about a cool new thing in your universe.

By: Antonio Cangiano

Antonio Cangiano — Fri, 09 Jul 2010 20:11:34 +0000

A Hacker News commenter linked to a great comment on how to get started with Clojure: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1033503