Hello Frank,
On 11/10/2012 4:05 PM, Frank Shearar wrote:
On 10 November 2012 21:42, Jimmie Houchin <[email protected]> wrote:
On 11/10/2012 11:03 AM, Igor Stasenko wrote:
It is too much imo..
Clojure->java -> c++
i would just write C++ code
The API is either Java or C++ or .NET.
I agree that no sane person would go Clojure->Java->C++ :)
Why? It's all just bytecodes on a JVM. And Clojure is a _much_ nicer
language than Java.
What I was referencing is that no one would want to use Clojure to
interface with Java in order to access code in a C++ DLL. I agree that
Clojure is nicer than Java.
Clojure would provide the option of interfacing natively the Java API,
without having to write Java. But then I am left developing in Clojure,
unless I decide to serve to Pharo via http/websockets.
But you'd still need to write something here, to expose the API via
HTTP, so you can't escape the net completely.
Yes, I understand. Not trying to avoid the net. What I was stating is
that I would either write my entire application in Clojure, or I would
write the part which accesses FXCM's API and serve it to Pharo via
http/websockets. Currently I have a Python/COM setup which serves my
Pharo app via http.
As I do not currently know Java or Clojure or C++, it currently seemed like
learning Clojure as the optimal path of least resistance.
That is with a belief that I could learn Clojure better, easier, faster than
C++, or at least a sufficient subset of C++ to work with NB.
I think going the Clojure route makes more sense, but I am strongly
biased towards functional programming languages. It is a simpler
language to learn than Java, yet one that provides much richer
libraries. You won't, for instance, have to write a for loop to
iterate over a collection. Just read "reduce" and think "inject:
into:" and you're halfway there.
frank
I like Clojure, but I really, really like Smalltalk/Pharo. I also have
significant time and code in Pharo which would have be rewritten in
Clojure should I choose a Clojure route. So currently I really favor
solutions which keep me in Pharo. I do like Clojure as the best
non-Pharo solution.
Jimmie
