I would gladly pay for such a thing to materialize on my screen; if it only took money to get that, I'm sure we'd all be willing to finance such an effort however we can.
On Thursday, October 27, 2011 1:58:52 PM UTC-4, TimDaly wrote: > > So imagine a world where the eloquence of Rich Hickey was expressed in > book form. Imagine the whole immutability lecture written down and > decorated with the actual running code as illustration. Imagine that > the original authors clearly explained software transactional memory > and illustrated it with the actual code. Imagine a discussion of > argument destructuring with running code illustrations. > > How many more people would be able to dive into the details of Clojure > to maintain and modify the code? How many people would find it much > easier to understand prototypes, defrecords, macros, and all of the > other struggles that populate the current email forums? How are > infinite sequences supported and what code supports it? What does > NIL mean and why was it defined that way? > > We do not capture the ideas. We do not rewrite the explanations to > clarify the fine points of confusion. We do not illustrate how the > ideas of Red-Black tries are moved "from ideas to implementation". > We do not communicate the ideas to each other. We code for the machine. > > ... > Now imagine that the "book" is multimedia where you can include > > animation (watch the tree balance), video, and a running REPL. > Think Khan Academy for Clojure. > > This community is willing to overthrow the traditional ideas of lisp > in order to make progress on a new path. Yet we continue to structure > the development as though we worked on a PDP 11/40 with 4k file size > limits. We continue to let the most valuable information which is the > meat of Clojure disappear while we keep only the code, the bones of > Clojure. > > -- 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
