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I love Shen. Check the mailinglist (Google) you can see my name there months ago. I have my own implementation of KLambda and Shen which is faster than any of t
by tluyben2 10y ago
I love Shen. Check the mailinglist (Google) you can see my name there months ago. I have my own implementation of KLambda and Shen which is faster than any of those on the site, I sponsored the open source license and bought and read both his books. However when Mark decided to make it closed again kind of for professionals and when I found his mindset is too different from OSS I stopped working on it. I am still sorry because I really like Shen. I might revisit that when I have more time because it is very nicely done. Not OSS for a programming language really does not work for me. I mailed and talked how to make money with OSS (I do...) and that a language bar Mathematica, Matlab, K/Q and Labview cannot be closed and paid. And to be one of those you need a niche and first mover clients. I had a first mover client to pay for OSS dev and libs but it never happened. So Clojure. Pun intended.
- eggy 10y agoYes, I bought the books too, and I am not using Shen Professional, but Shen on Emacs Lisp by Deech brought me back into the fold. I just can't stand the stack traces in Clojure, although I like the language. Shen is like Haskell, Lisp, and Prolog all rolled into one, and satisfies my need for a truly universal language to program in. Now it's just more libraries for me!