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Yes, it was fast. I believe 18 months between first public release and 1.0. Though rhickey said he worked on Clojure for a year+ before the first public releas
by arohner 17y ago
Yes, it was fast. I believe 18 months between first public release and 1.0.
Though rhickey said he worked on Clojure for a year+ before the first public release, and before Clojure he worked on two projects trying to integrate Common Lisp and Java (call Java from CL and vice versa). He said the difficulty of those projects lead him to write clojure.
- shaunxcode 17y agoWhich is funny because (as I recall) the initial developer of java itself started the project after getting frustrated with how difficult it was to implement macro expansion for c. It seems things have finally come full circle yielding the best of both worlds.
- mahmud 17y agoI thought they wanted to program set-top boxes but weren't sure of the final hardware implementation so they abstracted away the VM and runtime, initially with an eye towards an smalltalk implementation but ended up greenspuning something new called Oak?