On May 17, 11:00 am, Sean Corfield <seancorfi...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 5:34 AM, Timothy Washington <twash...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > I'm a former java developer, whose tried scala, ruby, etc. And with clojure, > > I haven't been this intellectually excited since I designed my first DSL :) > > My commercial background is primarily (in historical order): C, C++, > Java, CFML - then later Groovy, Scala and now Clojure. Back at > university, I worked with Lisp a fair bit (and Prolog) and spent three > years doing research on functional language design and implementation > - then OO came along (with C++) and steamrollered everything else :) > I'm very pleased to see functional programming being taken seriously > again these days and attracting people from mainstream / OO > backgrounds!
Me! I used Java and C for years before my abortive attempt to learn CL, followed by a more enthusiastic leap towards Clojure. > As Chas and others have hinted, tooling support is fairly immature for > Clojure and there's quite a split between the "old school Lispers" > with Emacs / Slime / Swank / etc (not intended as a knock but it seems > the folks who favor this stuff are long time Emacs and/or Lisp users?) > and the "former Java devs" with Eclipse / IntelliJ / NetBeans and > their plugins. For what it's worth, a year ago I had never touched Emacs and was terrified by it, partly because of the attitude of superiority Emacs users tend to have. But I was learning lisp, and Emacs was reported to be the best tool for lisp, so by God I learned Emacs. A year later: I still use Eclipse for Java, and occasionally for its "Team" SVN features, but I use Emacs for everything else. I try to hide my new- found attitude of superiority :). -- 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
