Yes I see ... right up to date with Tapestry 5.1.0.5. On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 2:18 PM, Toralf Wittner <toralf.witt...@gmail.com>wrote:
> > On Thu, 2009-06-18 at 09:39 -0700, Howard Lewis Ship wrote: > > I've been doing a number of presentations on Clojure lately > > (TheServerSide, Portland Code Camp, Open Source Bridge), and I'm > > getting some interest in Clojure and functional programming. > > > > A question that keeps coming up is: where would you use Clojure and/or > > functional? > > We are developing http://pagesms.com, a chat/im widget which can be > embedded on web pages. The whole backend (comet server using Java NIO, > HTTP/JSON/Bayeux processing, and business logic (users, channels, etc.) > is implemented in Clojure. In total this means roughly 4000 lines of > Clojure code. > > Because this is a side project, we can't spend nearly as much time with > it as we would like, but using Clojure in this setting is a joy. It is > easy to abstract things, easy to express things and very dynamic. I > would recommend Clojure for concurrency oriented tasks (surprise, > surprise), parsers, protocol implementations, event based programming > etc. Actually, Clojure always worked well for me regardless of the > problem domain. Of course being hosted on the JVM wouldn't make it an > ideal systems programming language, but it was never meant to be one. So > it really is a general purpose language. > > The product itself is still early alpha quality. The service is not > always up, has not been seriously tested and many planned features are > not implemented yet. > > Btw. the frontend is done with Tapestry :), the widget itself is > implemented in Javascript. > > Cheers, > Toralf > > > > > > -- Howard M. Lewis Ship Creator of Apache Tapestry Director of Open Source Technology at Formos --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your first post. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
