Re: will clojure evolve to be able to do systems programming?

2009-06-16 Thread Stuart Halloway
Would be interesting to combine Clojure with NailGun for utility scripting... http://sourceforge.net/projects/nailgun/ > Due to the startup cost of the JVM, Clojure and Java probably aren't > the best choices for tiny five to ten line utility scripts. That being > said, Clojure works well for

Re: will clojure evolve to be able to do systems programming?

2009-06-16 Thread tmountain
Due to the startup cost of the JVM, Clojure and Java probably aren't the best choices for tiny five to ten line utility scripts. That being said, Clojure works well for level stuff like bit twiddling, I/O, and socket programming. If you're in an environment where Java is available on your servers,

Re: will clojure evolve to be able to do systems programming?

2009-06-16 Thread Sean Devlin
What exactly do you mean by systems programming? If you mean hardware stuff that's outside the scope of the JVM, then no, I doubt it. However, I am hard pressed to think of situations that you can code with Java SE (dunno about ME) that you can't handle with Clojure. Now that I think about it,

will clojure evolve to be able to do systems programming?

2009-06-16 Thread hari sujathan
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