From: Chad Perrin <perrin@...>
Date: 2009-02-26T07:50:09+09:00
Subject: Re: Nexus Programming Language

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On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 09:24:23AM +0900, William James wrote:
>=20
> And he is so idiotic that he can't comprehend that COBOL Lisp
> isn't the only Lisp---is, in fact, the worst of the lot.
> He can't learn Clojure because to his fossilized brain
> COBOL, COBOL-LISP, APL, and FORTRAN are new and radical languages.

To be fair, I'm not terribly likely to learn Clojure any time soon, for a
number of reasons:

  1. While code written for the JDK/JVM is very portable across systems
  with the JDK/JVM installed, and code written for the JRE is very
  portable across systems with the JRE installed, code written for one is
  sometimes not so portable to the other, and doG forbid you try running
  code written for either on some third-party Java VM.  Since Clojure is
  a language designed to run atop a Java implementation, this could be
  relevant, and results in it not providing me a whole lot of benefit
  over Ruby, Perl, et cetera, for purposes of portability.  At least,
  that's my experience.

  2. The JVM and JRE distributions of the official Java implementation
  are not as protable as people like to think, themselves.  On some OSes,
  it's a real bear to get 'em installed and keep 'em updated.

  3. I like to get started in a language with simple command line tools,
  and don't much like having to start up a huge effin' VM like Java's to
  run simple command line tools.

Clojure sounds like a great language, though.

--=20
Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ]
Quoth Niccolo Machiavelli: "It is a common failing of man not to take
account of tempests during fair weather."

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