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Re:The Axis Of Eval: Why I ignore Clojure by jimbokun on Monday September 20, 2010 @11:05AM (#1709070)
Perl, Python and Ruby all have outstanding communities.

Would you care to argue that the Lisp community is better than any of these?

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Re:The Axis Of Eval: Why I ignore Clojure by mahmud on Monday September 20, 2010 @11:55AM (#1709258)
Yes, I would argue. It's refreshing to drop in #lisp and ask any technical question, of whatever magnitude, and get answers immediately.

I recommend that place to any intelligent students, researchers, language weenies, compiler hackers and system engineers. Just be informed and don't ask opinionated, loaded questions.

Elsewhere? meh, I am left to think my present company has just been introduced to computing by its $LANG_MANUAL.

There is also a lot of childish fucking around and casual piss-taking that doesn't happen among Lispers. If you expect an standing ovation because you pushed something to github, fuggedaboutit. No one will be retweeting wisdom, no one will like you on facebook, you will not be blogged about ..

Ever wonder why Lispers, and most adult programming communities don't have "Rock Star" celeb provocateurs?

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Re:The Axis Of Eval: Why I ignore Clojure by randallsquared on Monday September 20, 2010 @05:10PM (#1710515)
There is also a lot of childish fucking around and casual piss-taking that doesn't happen among Lispers.

Maybe not anymore, but that stuff used to happen very regularly on comp.lang.lisp during the years I paid attention to it (2003ish through 2006ish, maybe).

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Re:The Axis Of Eval: Why I ignore Clojure by mahmud on Tuesday September 21, 2010 @12:53PM (#1713255)
CLL is the elephant graveyard of Lispers. It's where old hackers go to die.

It's a messy place to be, but there are some ivory treasures to dig up.

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Re:The Axis Of Eval: Why I ignore Clojure by mfukar on Sunday September 26, 2010 @02:11AM (#1728662)
We've entered the hypothetical realm here..clearly some people have had different experiences when it comes to interacting with "Lispers". Maybe they asked the wrong question or they acted like jerks, who knows.

And most adult programming communities have something worse than the "Rock Star" stereotype: the "Authority". For Lisp in particular, there are plenty who struggle for that title.

PS. Indeed, "I pushed 20 of my projects to Github"...who cares, is anyone of them any good?

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Re:The Axis Of Eval: Why I ignore Clojure by lispm on Monday September 20, 2010 @11:15AM (#1709107)
No, I was just say that you have to make a choice. Since Perl, Ruby and Python are all completely incompatible and share no code. You can look at Lisp and choose Racket and be happy, for example.
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