On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 06:54:34PM -0700, Andrew Lentvorski wrote: > Meh. It's different, but probably not better. > > What's different seems to be the *community* surrounding it. The folks > working with/on Clojure don't seem to be allergic to doing the grubby > things that Lispers normally can't be bothered with: testing, > interfacing with libraries and documentation. Beginner documentation is > lacking, but Clojure is *way* ahead of where other new languages were at > similar stages.
Technical projects seem to like having a leader who doesn't mind an interview once in a while and the limelight...think Guido, Larry and Linus. Does Clojure have a figurehead that can be Lisp's Guido? Lisp has been waiting for such a "Chosen One" for a long time. Chris -- KPLUG-LPSG@kernel-panic.org http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-lpsg
