Re: Matt Raible: Why is Clojure better than Scala or Groovy?

2010-01-17 Thread Mike Meyer
On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 8:22 PM, Julian juliangam...@gmail.com wrote: Matt Raible - Spring Expert and Java consultant posted the following entry to Twitter: Why is Clojure better than Scala or Groovy? How about two reasons to learn Clojure instead? 1) Clojure is (a) LISP. According to Eric

Re: Matt Raible: Why is Clojure better than Scala or Groovy?

2010-01-17 Thread Keith Irwin
I don't think you can really answer the question because it being asked in the way it that precludes a good enough answer. The tone of Matt Raible's request suggests that he'd really rather not learn it, and that there's no possible reason to overcome that reluctance. Why travel? There's plenty

Re: Matt Raible: Why is Clojure better than Scala or Groovy?

2010-01-16 Thread Rich Hickey
On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 8:22 PM, Julian juliangam...@gmail.com wrote: Matt Raible - Spring Expert and Java consultant posted the following entry to Twitter: Why is Clojure better than Scala or Groovy? http://twitter.com/mraible/status/7793457551 He went on to say: Let's try that again: I

Re: Matt Raible: Why is Clojure better than Scala or Groovy?

2010-01-16 Thread Laurent PETIT
One third main selling point, just for you ;-) : Clojure has a rooted in it a development paradigm suited to manage state of identities over time. That is, clojure embraces the functional paradigm for most of the development process, but does not leave you naked when time comes to write those

Re: Matt Raible: Why is Clojure better than Scala or Groovy?

2010-01-16 Thread Jon Harrop
On Saturday 16 January 2010 18:10:15 Shantanu Kumar wrote: The best benefit of Clojure is, I think, the power-to-weight ratio. That's a really good description for a low barrier to entry. :-) -- Dr Jon Harrop, Flying Frog Consultancy Ltd. http://www.ffconsultancy.com/?e -- You received this