Lines of code are a terrible metric for language complexity. If I
write a function and abstract away half the code, have I made Clojure
twice as simple?
If you want to really evaluate Clojure, write a non-trivial
application and see whether the complexity is still manageable. Code
golf doesn't tell you anything.
Zach
On Sep 9, 8:38 am, Mike Meyer <mwm-keyword-googlegroups.
620...@mired.org> wrote:
> On Thu, 9 Sep 2010 10:59:28 -0400
>
> David Nolen <dnolen.li...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > If you're going for simplicity over robustness and you have lein installed,
> > all you need to do is the following:
>
> > lein new nano-web
>
> Yup - the goal is simplicity. Robustness is important, but I expect
> the web server to take care of that. What I'm really expecting to lose
> here is performance.
>
> > Edit your project.clj
>
> > (defproject nano-web "1.0.0-SNAPSHOT"
> > :dependencies [[org.clojure/clojure "1.2.0"]
> > [org.clojure/clojure-contrib "1.2.0"]
> > [ring "0.2.5"]])
>
> > So far we have 4 lines to define our dependencies. Edit
> > src/core/nano_web.clj
>
> You mean src/nano_web/core.clj.
>
> > (ns nano-web.core
> > (use [ring.adapter.jetty :only [run-jetty]]
> > [ring.util.response :only [response]]))
>
> > (defn hello-world [req]
> > (response "Hello World!"))
>
> > (defonce server (run-jetty hello-world {:port 8080 :join? false}))
>
> > That's the 8 lines of actual code needed to have a full functioning web
> > application. Let's start it:
>
> The blank lines don't count, so it's six lines of code.
>
> > lein repl
> > user=> (load "nano_web/core")
>
> And two tools - lein and clojure itself.
>
> So we go from 3, 0, 1 to 6, 4, 2. I'm not sure that qualifies as
> simple, but at least there's less boilerplate for the tools than there
> is actual source code.
>
> Thanks for the answer.
>
> And, since I forgot, thanks to Meikel Brandmeyer for his earlier
> answer as well.
>
> <mike
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