Simple Ain't Easy, but Hard Ain't Simple: Leaving Clojure for Ruby

Re:Simple Ain't Easy, but Hard Ain't Simple: Leaving Clojure... by lispm on Wednesday May 24, 2017 @02:30PM (#14412292)

> If we replicate the community of Common Lisp

Peter Norvig, Paul Graham, Dan Weinreb, Edi Weitz, Jans Aasman, Patrick Winston, Kent Pitman, the people from Clozure/Franz/LispWorks/..., and many many others.

That would be hard to replicate.

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Re:Simple Ain't Easy, but Hard Ain't Simple: Leaving Clojure... by meredydd on Wednesday May 24, 2017 @06:06PM (#14413847)

And yet, even these luminaries were insufficient to propel significant industrial adoption in the face of a famously hostile/arrogant/condescending community. The same fate befalling Clojure would be terrible.

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Re:Simple Ain't Easy, but Hard Ain't Simple: Leaving Clojure... by lispm on Wednesday May 24, 2017 @10:02PM (#14414840)

I find such a comment very hostile, arrogant and condescending.

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