Re: Clojure turns 5

2012-10-18 Thread Mauricio Aldazosa
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Re: Clojure turns 5

2012-10-18 Thread Mimmo Cosenza
I came very recently to clojure, having crossed CL in the 80's, c/c++ in the 90's and java in the 00's. A long travel to find with clojure a kind of very comfortable destination very close to where I started from + seqs and laziness. thanks Rich, and all of you too to brought me back on joy

Re: Clojure turns 5

2012-10-18 Thread Brian Kirkbride
Congratulations Rich. Many thanks to you and the many people that have contributed to making Clojure what it is today. Learning and using Clojure has truly brought the joy back to creating software and I needed that! Best, Brian On Tuesday, October 16, 2012 8:53:55 PM UTC-5, Rich Hickey

Re: Clojure turns 5

2012-10-18 Thread Denis Labaye
bravo! On Thu, Oct 18, 2012 at 9:29 PM, Brian Kirkbride br...@otherpeoplespixels.com wrote: Congratulations Rich. Many thanks to you and the many people that have contributed to making Clojure what it is today. Learning and using Clojure has truly brought the joy back to creating software

Re: Clojure turns 5

2012-10-17 Thread James Qiu
Thanks Rich for having bring such a great gift to us. 在 2012年10月17日星期三，Rich Hickey 写道： I released Clojure 5 years ago today. It's been a terrific ride so far. Thanks to everyone who contributes to making Clojure, and its community, great. Rich -- You received this message because you

Re: Clojure turns 5

2012-10-17 Thread Bruce Durling
Thanks Rich and Happy Birthday Clojure! cheers, Bruce On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 2:54 AM, Rich Hickey richhic...@gmail.com wrote: I released Clojure 5 years ago today. It's been a terrific ride so far. Thanks to everyone who contributes to making Clojure, and its community, great. Rich --

Re: Clojure turns 5

2012-10-17 Thread eniotna
Thanks Rich, the community too! Happy birthday Clojure May the repl be with you :D Antoine 2012/10/17 Bruce Durling b...@otfrom.com Thanks Rich and Happy Birthday Clojure! cheers, Bruce On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 2:54 AM, Rich Hickey richhic...@gmail.com wrote: I released Clojure 5 years

Re: Clojure turns 5

2012-10-17 Thread Herwig Hochleitner
Happy birthday Clojure! Big thanks to Rich and the whole community! -- 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

Re: Clojure turns 5

2012-10-17 Thread Jim foo.bar
WOW! Has it been 5 years already? Thanks a lot Rich for this beautiful gift to all of us...You rock and Clojure rules!!! Jim On 17/10/12 02:54, Rich Hickey wrote: I released Clojure 5 years ago today. It's been a terrific ride so far. Thanks to everyone who contributes to making Clojure,

Re: Clojure turns 5

2012-10-17 Thread Eric Thorsen
I remember having lunch discussing what a great world it would be if we could earn a living coding in a lisp. You not only made that happen but started something that I could never have imagined at the time. Thanks for Clojure and thanks to the incredible community that continues to inspire me

Re: Clojure turns 5

2012-10-17 Thread Niels van Klaveren
(take 5 (range)) Many happy return values, Rich ! On Wednesday, October 17, 2012 3:53:55 AM UTC+2, Rich Hickey wrote: I released Clojure 5 years ago today. It's been a terrific ride so far. Thanks to everyone who contributes to making Clojure, and its community, great. Rich -- You

Re: Clojure turns 5

2012-10-17 Thread Timothy Washington
On Tue, Oct 16, 2012 at 10:02 PM, XPherior madrush...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks to everyone. This community is transforming software engineering in a great way. I was just thinking that the other day. Language of course is a tool that helps us humans communicate with each other, and describe

Re: Clojure turns 5

2012-10-17 Thread Gary Johnson
You have made my dissertation not only bearable but an absolute blast, Rich. Thank you for your pioneering spirit, endless calls for incorporating higher principles in programming, and just being that awesome, humble guy with the crazy hair. ~Gary On Tuesday, October 16, 2012 9:53:55 PM

Re: Clojure turns 5

2012-10-17 Thread Timothy Baldridge
The one thing that has excited me the most about Clojure, is how it blends old and new ideas so well. Clojure is a language based ideas originally created in 1958. It runs on a VM created in 1990. It has a concurrency model never seen before, and it's data structures are based on concepts created

Re: Clojure turns 5

2012-10-17 Thread Jim foo.bar
On 17/10/12 15:41, Timothy Baldridge wrote: So thank you Rich...thank you for ruining all other languages for me. +1 very well put... Jim -- 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

Re: Clojure turns 5

2012-10-17 Thread Paul deGrandis
Whoa, five years?! So awesome. Congrats! -- 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

Re: Clojure turns 5

2012-10-17 Thread Curtis
HAPPY BIRTHDAY!! thank you Rich for the fyi! On Tuesday, October 16, 2012 6:53:55 PM UTC-7, Rich Hickey wrote: I released Clojure 5 years ago today. It's been a terrific ride so far. Thanks to everyone who contributes to making Clojure, and its community, great. Rich -- You

Clojure turns 5

2012-10-16 Thread Rich Hickey
I released Clojure 5 years ago today. It's been a terrific ride so far. Thanks to everyone who contributes to making Clojure, and its community, great. Rich -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Clojure group. To post to this group, send email to

Re: Clojure turns 5

2012-10-16 Thread David Jagoe
Happy Birthday Clojure. And thanks Rich! On 16 October 2012 18:54, Rich Hickey richhic...@gmail.com wrote: I released Clojure 5 years ago today. It's been a terrific ride so far. Thanks to everyone who contributes to making Clojure, and its community, great. Rich -- You received this

Re: Clojure turns 5

2012-10-16 Thread Baishampayan Ghose
That's huge! Time flies. Happy Birthday Clojure and thank you very much Rich for creating Clojure and fostering this amazing community. Regards, BG On Tue, Oct 16, 2012 at 6:54 PM, Rich Hickey richhic...@gmail.com wrote: I released Clojure 5 years ago today. It's been a terrific ride so far.

Re: Clojure turns 5

2012-10-16 Thread Joseph Smith
Whoo hoo!! Party!!! Thanks to everyone, especially Rich, for creating and contributing to Clojure. :) --- Joseph Smith j...@uwcreations.com @solussd On Oct 16, 2012, at 8:54 PM, Rich Hickey richhic...@gmail.com wrote: I released Clojure 5 years ago today. It's been a terrific ride so far.

Re: Clojure turns 5

2012-10-16 Thread XPherior
Thanks to everyone. This community is transforming software engineering in a great way. On Tuesday, October 16, 2012 10:01:29 PM UTC-4, solussd wrote: Whoo hoo!! Party!!! Thanks to everyone, especially Rich, for creating and contributing to Clojure. :) --- Joseph Smith

Re: Clojure turns 5

2012-10-16 Thread Paul Mooser
Thank you for clojure. Using clojure has exposed me to new ideas and made be a better programmer. I consider myself lucky to be able to use it every day at work. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Clojure group. To post to this group, send email to

Re: Clojure turns 5

2012-10-16 Thread Softaddicts
Congratulations Rich, http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_F0yEiHzEaRc/S1NUOQ1kNeI/C14/cAUqKY8nISk/s1600-h/HappyBdayFiveCandles.jpg You can try to blow the candles :) Happy birthday ! Luc I released Clojure 5 years ago today. It's been a terrific ride so far. Thanks to everyone who

Re: Clojure turns 5

2012-10-16 Thread David Nolen
Congrats! On Tuesday, October 16, 2012, Rich Hickey wrote: I released Clojure 5 years ago today. It's been a terrific ride so far. Thanks to everyone who contributes to making Clojure, and its community, great. Rich -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google

Re: Clojure turns 5

2012-10-16 Thread kovas boguta
Congrats! The output coming out of Rich and Clojure/core lately is coming at an unbelievable pace. Keep up the good work :) On Tue, Oct 16, 2012 at 11:15 PM, David Nolen dnolen.li...@gmail.com wrote: Congrats! On Tuesday, October 16, 2012, Rich Hickey wrote: I released Clojure 5 years ago

Re: Clojure turns 5

2012-10-16 Thread AtKaaZ
That's *a lot* of hard work. I am amazed of how much work goes into making such great software with the studying and the many years spent training yourself(generally speaking, not just Rich, but certainly I myself am not part of that list) before the project even started. Sometimes it just boggles

Re: Clojure turns 5

2012-10-16 Thread Robert Luo
It was an incredible language, five years with clojure is an incredible journey, helping me understand programming better, and do programming better. Thanks Rich! On Wednesday, October 17, 2012 9:53:55 AM UTC+8, Rich Hickey wrote: I released Clojure 5 years ago today. It's been a terrific

Re: Clojure turns 5

2012-10-16 Thread Alex Baranosky
Clojure is the gift that keep giving. I, for one, really appreciate what you've done Rich, and can't wait to work with it more and take part in the community as it grows. Alex On Tue, Oct 16, 2012 at 9:39 PM, Robert Luo l...@basecity.com wrote: It was an incredible language, five years with