Clojure: It’s About the Libraries

Re:Clojure: It’s About the Libraries by jerf on Thursday April 30, 2009 @08:17PM (#587811)

"but Erlang and Haskell are really hard to teach to mere mortals like myself."

No, just Haskell. Learning Erlang is roughly on par with learning Javascript well; it may involve a couple of new paradigms (like Javascript imposes event-oriented programming and prototypes, which may be new to you), but the language itself is straightforward. Different, but straightforward. The concurrency may blow your mind, but the syntax and basic mode of operation is unlikely to do so, in contrast to Haskell.

Don't be scared away from Erlang.

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Re:Clojure: It’s About the Libraries by alphazero on Thursday April 30, 2009 @11:08PM (#588010)

Agreed. Erlang is actually very friendly. (Much more so than Clojure, for that matter ..)

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Re:Clojure: It’s About the Libraries by benreesman on Thursday April 30, 2009 @09:26PM (#587888)

I definitely intend to give Erlang another try soon, if for no other reason than because I really want to hack on RabbitMQ. Last time I tried I failed though.

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