On Sep 29, 5:26 am, Stefan Kamphausen <ska2...@googlemail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > anybody seen this already? > > http://www.basementcoders.com/transcripts/James_Gosling_Transcript.html > (Transcript fromhttp://basementcoders.com/?p=721) > > When being asked about other languages he says: "Clojure. Clojure's > got a lot of coolness about it but it's not for everyone." > > Kind regards, > Stefan
Not surprising in the context of this (somewhat outrageous) quote from Guy Steele: We had to make hard choices about what to fix before releasing it. Method call overload resolution was a mess; we fixed it. Generic types were debated, but didn't make it in. Unicode support was added; tail calls were not. And so on. And you're right: we were not out to win over the Lisp programmers; we were after the C++ programmers. We managed to drag a lot of them about halfway to Lisp. source: http://people.csail.mit.edu/gregs/ll1-discuss-archive-html/msg04045.html Adam -- 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
