Huahai Yang wrote:For example, Ruby is popular, but only for Web programming. I believe Clojure has a much bigger aspiration than that.
It tooks about 10 months on and off.
So I think it is important to actually dive into the language instead of just reading about it. The more people do that, the more people will love the language.
That's why I think there has to be some sort of killer app/demo if Clojure indeed wants to be more of a general language.
John Todd wrote:
That's why I think there has to be some sort of killer app/demo if Clojure indeed wants to be more of a general language.
So Java, Ruby and Python aren't general programming languages?
Killer demo isn't a requirement to success, what was the killer demo of Python when it was released?
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andrew ennamorato wrote:...they're still looking for that certain demo/example/whatever-you-want-to-call-it that will make it worth the effort to learn a language that uses such a different style.
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