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I've talked to a lot of people about how they got into Clojure, and a fair number credit Paul Graham's essays for selling them on the idea of using a Lisp. I t
by prospero 14y ago
I've talked to a lot of people about how they got into Clojure, and a fair number credit Paul Graham's essays for selling them on the idea of using a Lisp. I think there's a pretty clear causal link.
- dmix 14y agoFor me it was reading SICP which used LISP (scheme) that made me pay attention to clojure.
- agumonkey 14y agoClojure did emerge in the right time, it maybe all corelated, maybe Hickey felt a lisp revival coming when pg wrote his essays and decided to build the one he always wanted. That's a question I'd ask him if I could.
- mattdeboard 14y agoSo now pg is not only responsible for Clojure's success, he's the reason it exists in the first place? As a lisp, anyway? This is getting pretty ridiculous, here.
- agumonkey 14y agoI shouldn't have used 'when', it can be read as an implication, but I just meant around the time pg talked about lisp.