Clojure: - Reach and performance of Java - Elegance of Ruby* - Scales like nothing else**
*Lisp would be more accurate than Ruby, but managers have probably been hearing more about Ruby than Lisp. ** (Functional Programming + Software Transactional Memory) = Multicore applications programmed by real humans. I am nominally a pointy-headed boss and I am already convinced. Stuart Halloway CEO Relevance, Inc. > 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
