Hi all, This isn't directly Ruby related, but may be of interest to some of you.
I am giving a talk on High Leverage programming in Clojure at the Manchester Madlab: http://madlab.org.uk/content/clojure/ If you're a Ruby programmer, then you like playing with cool things; and Clojure is probably the coolest general purpose language that you can convince your boss to let you use. Like Ruby, Clojure is a hell of a lot of fun! If you like meta-programming, DSL's and building a language to solve your problem, you'll love Clojure! Like with Ruby, Clojure lets you safely hide the details under the hood with little ceremony... Oh and did I mention Clojure has all the duck-typing, maps, filters, reduce's and inline regexes that you love... except this time we have laziness, great performance, and fewer problems due to unrestrained mutation. This talk will be introductory, but I hope to move quite quickly; giving a good grounding in the Clojure language; its syntax semantics & interactive development style... Being a Ruby programmer myself I can say that Clojure is a great follow on language for a Ruby programmer to learn: 1) Clojure is a Lisp (and Lisp had Matz has frequently said that Lisp was one of the main influences behind Ruby). 2) Clojure has even more capable than Ruby at meta-programming. 3) Clojure is terse and expressive like Ruby. 4) Clojure gets state right.... Making it ideal for programming applications with a lot of concurrency. If there's enough interest I hope to start a regular Clojure Dojo at the madlab. If you have any questions about Clojure or this event don't hesitate to send me an email. R. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NWRUG" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nwrug-members?hl=en.
