fogus: This PLT Life: The Node.js guy speaks his mind

Oct 18, 2012

Inspired¹ by Manuel Simoni’s This PLT Life series I present, “My reaction when the Node.js guy speaks about simplicity and programming languages.”:

configurator

What is this a reaction to?

Oct 18th, 2012
Alex

Ahaha! … I love Axis of Eval’s series, & this is just a great follow up,

Oct 18th, 2012
Ryan Kelker

As far as I know, Clojure is the most consistent in syntax and functionality. No surprises. No worries. I dare anyone to find a more consistant language than Clojure.

BTW, great book. – Ryan Kelker, the Clojure mayor @ coderwall.com

Oct 19th, 2012
Steven Seagal's Ponytail

@Ryan Kelker

(define “consistent”)

Clojure uses too many special characters with special meaning to be called “consistent.” If you want consistent, stick with Scheme. By the way, to save you some heartbreak I’ll just let you know right now that a degree in “Cyber Security” is not the same thing as Computer Science. Not that I think degrees are a requirement for anything, but be honest with yourself.

Oct 20th, 2012
fogus

@PonyTail

Clojure uses too many special characters with special meaning to be called “consistent.”

Definitely Clojure’s syntax is not for everyone. However, each syntactic element has a meaning and is used in a consistent way (which I suspect is what the OP meant).

Oct 23rd, 2012
Ryan Kelker

@Ponytail

(ns ryan.kelker.response (:gen-class))

(def language-battle? (and :clojure :node.js)) (when language-battle? “Returns (not false)” ‘{:clojure-vs-node (just-did-for-3rd-time (:re-read the-joy-of-clojure))} “Node.js is good for many things but, Clojure’s great for most.”

Nov 27th, 2012

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