A to Z of programming languages: Clojure(computerworld.com)

8 pointsby j_bakervor 17 Jahren1 comments

A to Z of programming languages: Clojure

http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9136528/The_A_Z_of_Programming_Languages_Clojure?taxonomyId=11

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I have been learning Clojure casually for a few weeks now. I have been wanting to learn Lisp for years, based on pg's essays. Clojure finally gave me an approachable, useful way to do that.

Pluses so far: + Concise code; no ceremony. + Best concurrency paradigm I've seen. This is huge to me. + Effortless integration w/ Java libraries.

Cons so far: - Not the most readable language. Reminds me more of Perl than Python. Newbies like me take a while to figure out all the sigils. - Making Clojure code run fast is non-trivial. Often a speedup-focused rewrite produces code that is much more obscure than the original.

My opinion may change over time, but those are my thoughts currently. I am really enjoying Clojure.

gruseomvor 17 Jahren

Posted here a few days ago:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=752852