Re: March 20th 2009 Rich Hickey Appreciation Day!

2009-03-23 Thread Konrad Hinsen
On Mar 22, 2009, at 11:47, stephaner wrote: I join the crowd too, Me too! Like many here, I have used lots of languages over time, starting with Microsoft Basic in 1982 and ranging from various Assemblers via C and Fortran to more recent high-level languages. For the last twelve years,

Re: March 20th 2009 Rich Hickey Appreciation Day!

2009-03-23 Thread Timothy Pratley
double thumbs up :) --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Clojure group. To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to

Re: March 20th 2009 Rich Hickey Appreciation Day!

2009-03-23 Thread Paul Drummond
I'm (fashionably?) late to share my appreciation. Excellent language - I can only imagine good things for Clojure in the future. Thanks Rich! --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Clojure group. To post

Re: March 20th 2009 Rich Hickey Appreciation Day!

2009-03-23 Thread jim
Ditto. March 20th 2009 Rich Hickey Appreciation Day -Rayne --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Clojure group. To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from

Re: March 20th 2009 Rich Hickey Appreciation Day!

2009-03-23 Thread Tom Faulhaber
to listen to the community before making big changes, I believe in Clojure and I will be here watching it evolve with you! If you would like to thank Rich Hickey for all he has done for us, you can post in this thread, or tell him yourself in the #Clojure IRC channel. :) March 20th 2009 Rich

Re: March 20th 2009 Rich Hickey Appreciation Day!

2009-03-23 Thread Albert Cardona
Thank you so much Rich to ease our collective pain !!! Gaudeamus igitur ... Albert -- Albert Cardona http://albert.rierol.net --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Clojure group. To post to

Re: March 20th 2009 Rich Hickey Appreciation Day!

2009-03-22 Thread stephaner
would like to thank Rich Hickey for all he has done for us, you can post in this thread, or tell him yourself in the #Clojure IRC channel. :) March 20th 2009 Rich Hickey Appreciation Day -Rayne --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you

Re: March 20th 2009 Rich Hickey Appreciation Day!

2009-03-22 Thread Jason Warner
can post in this thread, or tell him yourself in the #Clojure IRC channel. :) March 20th 2009 Rich Hickey Appreciation Day -Rayne --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Clojure group. To post to this group

Re: March 20th 2009 Rich Hickey Appreciation Day!

2009-03-22 Thread Anand Patil
can post in this thread, or tell him yourself in the #Clojure IRC channel. :) March 20th 2009 Rich Hickey Appreciation Day -Rayne --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Clojure group. To post

Re: March 20th 2009 Rich Hickey Appreciation Day!

2009-03-21 Thread Laurent PETIT
Clojure: Yes we can ! :-) Thank you Rich for showing the world there is still hope to get together the most of several worlds ! Finally, an appealing wedding of Lisp and JVM ! The Lisp of the century is born, long live to Clojure ! -- Laurent 2009/3/21 Adrian Cuthbertson

Re: March 20th 2009 Rich Hickey Appreciation Day!

2009-03-21 Thread Raj
Fellow Clojurians, I just started my journey on Clojure less than a week ago. I learned LISP in 1997, never done enough real world work. I really like LISP but never had an opportunity to apply this in my professional career. I am working on CLISP for a couple of years ( only for my pleasure). I

Re: March 20th 2009 Rich Hickey Appreciation Day!

2009-03-21 Thread Sean
it evolve with you! If you would like to thank Rich Hickey for all he has done for us, you can post in this thread, or tell him yourself in the #Clojure IRC channel. :) March 20th 2009 Rich Hickey Appreciation Day -Rayne --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received

Re: March 20th 2009 Rich Hickey Appreciation Day!

2009-03-21 Thread Shawn Hoover
On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 2:26 PM, Rayne disciplera...@gmail.com wrote: I Anthony Simpson, with the support of fellow Clojurists hereby declare March 20th, the first day of spring, Rich Hickey appreciation day! The first day of spring is very fitting for this occasion. Rich, the pragmatism,

Re: March 20th 2009 Rich Hickey Appreciation Day!

2009-03-21 Thread Meikel Brandmeyer
Hi, I was never a professional programmer, only a hobbyist. I started with Basic on a C64, went on with Pascal in school, learned C. From then on it was exploration of the World: Perl, Python, Scheme, Ruby, OCaml, a little Haskell. But I grew tired without a vision or a idea for a project. And

Re: March 20th 2009 Rich Hickey Appreciation Day!

2009-03-21 Thread Joshua Fox
Hear, Hear! It was far more natural to learn than Lisp and Scheme. The language has lots of brilliant features that make me think I wish I had thought of that. And I like the way Rich has built the community. Joshua --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this

Re: March 20th 2009 Rich Hickey Appreciation Day!

2009-03-21 Thread CuppoJava
Just a few months ago I had never heard of LISP, and already Clojure is so simple and elegant that I'm more productive now than I ever was in Java. Rich is a shining example of keeping practicality, and community in mind, when designing a new language. Thanks a lot Rich -Patrick

Re: March 20th 2009 Rich Hickey Appreciation Day!

2009-03-21 Thread Luc Prefontaine
I've been doing intensive dev since 1998 and before that I was doing both production support and dev (in these old ages, in production support you had the right to open an application and fix it :))). As others have said, Lisp is quite powerful but the real job opportunities where quasi

Re: March 20th 2009 Rich Hickey Appreciation Day!

2009-03-21 Thread Robert Stehwien
Hickey for all he has done for us, you can post in this thread, or tell him yourself in the #Clojure IRC channel. :) March 20th 2009 Rich Hickey Appreciation Day -Rayne --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups

Re: March 20th 2009 Rich Hickey Appreciation Day!

2009-03-21 Thread Mark H.
Thanks Rich!!! mfh --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Clojure group. To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to

Re: March 20th 2009 Rich Hickey Appreciation Day!

2009-03-21 Thread Rich Hickey
Appreciation appreciated! Thanks all, Rich --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Clojure group. To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to

Re: March 20th 2009 Rich Hickey Appreciation Day!

2009-03-21 Thread Rayne
You absolutely deserve it. On Mar 21, 8:02 pm, Rich Hickey richhic...@gmail.com wrote: Appreciation appreciated! Thanks all, Rich --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Clojure group. To post to this

Re: March 20th 2009 Rich Hickey Appreciation Day!

2009-03-21 Thread Giancarlo Angulo
post in this thread, or tell him yourself in the #Clojure IRC channel. :) March 20th 2009 Rich Hickey Appreciation Day -Rayne --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Clojure group. To post to this group

March 20th 2009 Rich Hickey Appreciation Day!

2009-03-20 Thread Rayne
in Clojure and I will be here watching it evolve with you! If you would like to thank Rich Hickey for all he has done for us, you can post in this thread, or tell him yourself in the #Clojure IRC channel. :) March 20th 2009 Rich Hickey Appreciation Day -Rayne

Re: March 20th 2009 Rich Hickey Appreciation Day!

2009-03-20 Thread Christophe Grand
channel. :) March 20th 2009 Rich Hickey Appreciation Day -Rayne -- Professional: http://cgrand.net/ (fr) On Clojure: http://clj-me.blogspot.com/ (en) --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups

Re: March 20th 2009 Rich Hickey Appreciation Day!

2009-03-20 Thread Lau_of_DK
he has done for us, you can post in this thread, or tell him yourself in the #Clojure IRC channel. :) March 20th 2009 Rich Hickey Appreciation Day -Rayne --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Clojure

Re: March 20th 2009 Rich Hickey Appreciation Day!

2009-03-20 Thread Aaron Brooks
in the #Clojure IRC channel. :) March 20th 2009 Rich Hickey Appreciation Day -Rayne --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Clojure group. To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com

Re: March 20th 2009 Rich Hickey Appreciation Day!

2009-03-20 Thread Adrian Cuthbertson
I wrote my first program in Fortran in 1975. Since then I've worked in Assember, Jcl, Rexx, Lisp 370, C, C++, VB (the low-light of my career), and a host of scripting/macro tools. I started with Java in 1998 and my own business in 2002 (web apps and backends with Java/Jsp/Js). I became