My "try to sell it to someone's boss approach": The most pressing issue in software development today is how to better take advantage of multi-core CPU's to increase performance and reduce energy costs. Clojure provides a fundamentally better approach (in terms of ease and safety) to concurrency than other languages out there. Its Lisp heritage gives it the power to greatly increase programmer productivity in a way that grows over time and to enable easy DSL creation to allow business owners to verify the correctness of programs. The fact that it runs on the JVM and can smoothly integrate with the millions of lines of legacy Java code are just icing on a very tall cake.
Like Chouser, I'm going to avoid trying to shorten it much, but hope you find it helpful. - J. On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 8:32 AM, estherschindler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'm doing an article for CIO.com on "5 [or whatever] languages that > ought to be on your [IT Manager's] radar," and I'd like to include > Clojure. I'm looking for a short statement on why it's useful, and why > the boss ought to let you use it for enterprise work. Any takers? > > This is meant to be a short-and-sweet article: just its name, URL, a > quick formal definition, and then one or two quotes from developers > about why they think it's valuable. Imagine that you're trying to > convince someone's boss to let you use it. What would you say? > > (This is a follow-up to > http://www.cio.com/article/446829/PHP_JavaScript_Ruby_Perl_Python_and_Tcl_Today_The_State_of_the_Scripting_Universe > in case you care. Some folks pointed out that a few "obvious" > languages should have been included. I'm happy to comply.) > > --Esther Schindler > senior online editor, CIO.com > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
