Re: beginning to learn Clojure after imperative programming my whole life

On Aug 9, 2017 7:46 PM, "Luc" wrote: The other unpleasant option to climb the learning curve asap is to end up with a deadline to spit out a product  I did it, 5 months of pure Hell  yes, but now you are a badass, no? it's the only way. After that the pain went

Re: beginning to learn Clojure after imperative programming my whole life

The other unpleasant option to climb the learning curve asap is to end up with a deadline to spit out a product  I did it, 5 months of pure Hell  After that the pain went away, either my brain adapted or my nervous system could not feel it anymore, can't remember 藍 Luc P. -- You received

Re: beginning to learn Clojure after imperative programming my whole life

On Aug 9, 2017 1:43 PM, "Andy" wrote: This feels like a different world. There's a reason for that. The conceptual space of languages like clojure is indeed radically different than the conceptual space of "imperative" languages. Think Turing (or maybe VonNeuman) machine

Re: beginning to learn Clojure after imperative programming my whole life

Hi, Andy. It took me up to 8 months before I switched my brains to functional way of thinking. When I started to learn Clojure, first code was in Clojure syntax but fully imperative style. Everything in Clojure was inconvenient and horrible. I didn't understand why people like Clojure. But,

Re: beginning to learn Clojure after imperative programming my whole life

Hi Andy! Honestly, there's something very lovable and addictive about working in Clojure and lisp in general, but I would caution against trying to use it as a silver bullet, and generalizing it to improving general 'problem-solving' skills might be a bridge too far. I think what lisp does do is

Re: "GC overhead limit exceeded": Deceptive message?

Thanks @Paulus, @Gary and @Peter, Rearranging the process to let go of the head is good advice. I believe the problem (should I need to keep all elements in memory) may ultimately be lazy collections inside the maps I'm producing. I saved 1,917 of these elements to disk and it took only 3

beginning to learn Clojure after imperative programming my whole life

This feels like a different world. Has anyone experienced a sharp increase in their problem solving abilities after switching to Clojure? I have been working my way through Living Clojure an Oreilly book. My curiosity got the better of me and I wondered if anyone here had some suggestions for