On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 8:22 PM, Julian <juliangam...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Matt Raible - Spring Expert and Java consultant posted the following
> entry to Twitter:
> "Why is Clojure better than Scala or Groovy?"
How about two reasons to learn Clojure instead?
1) Clojure is (a) LISP. According to Eric Raymond, "LISP is worth
learning for a different reason — the profound enlightenment
experience you will have when you finally get it. That experience will
make you a better programmer for the rest of your days, even if you
never actually use LISP itself a lot."
2) Clojure is designed from the ground up for concurrent
programming. It has a number of mechanisms that improve on locks for
managing state. Those come from other languages, and are liable to
appear in yet more languages in the future. If you're doing concurrent
programming, learning them will make you a better concurrent
programmer. If you're not doing concurrent programming, consider that
CPU improvement has changed from an exponential growth in raw speed to
an exponential growth in number of cores.
<mike
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