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Presented by Rich Hickey on Oct 01, 2009
Innovation in Your Data Centre
Regaining control of the data centre
Agile Development: A Manager's Roadmap for Success
Right Collaboration Architecture Drives Business Transformation
Looks like a very interesting presentation. I am specifically interested in the distinction between mainstream programs being processes rather than functions and ideas on how to do less mutation in imperative programs. Unfortunately I can't hear any sound! Any one else having the same problem?
Sound working for me on 10-07-2009 @ 12:53PM (GMT -5)
I have been following Clojure for a little while now but I haven't jumped into it. After listening to this I think I'll definitely have to find a project I can use it for. Sadly I think that it being a Lisp will hold it back from gaining mainstream popularity, but I think it will influence many languages to come, especially in regards to the things Rich talked about here. I think that Erlang is great concurrency solution, but I think the way Clojure does it is better for more general purpose programming.
> Sadly I think that it being a Lisp will hold it back from gaining mainstream popularity
On contrary, I think this might be one of the biggest things that separates Clojure from the rest in many beneficial ways. Clojure is making Lisp "fashionable" and Lisp brings invaluable benefits, accumulated over its 50 year history, to the language design that I think will give Clojure the longevity it needs to see it through next 50 years.
Honestly, I hope you're right. Functional programming is definitely in vogue now, and perhaps Lisp was really just 50 years ahead of its time. I certainly think it is a superior language to many other mainstream languages currently in use, I'm just skeptical. I agree that it sets it apart, and it may draw the attention of some old Lisp hackers, but in the end I just doubt it'll go big. Nobody is proclaiming it to be the heir to the Java throne like Scala (which I think will attract the strongly typed crowd), and I think Groovy has good corporate backing and is picking up the dynamic crowd. That's not to say that it won't have a thriving community. And it may very well keep Lisp relevant for the next 50 years. I just don't think it'll have what most people consider "mainstream success". The same could be said for many other great languages. It's not an insult. I remember Joe Armstrong once being asked if he thought that Erlang would ever reach mainstream popularity. I believe he said something like, "I don't think so. But it will hopefully influence another language that is more accessible to the mainstream."
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