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Clojure seems like a pretty natural choice, especially if you are planning to use a lot of third party libraries written in Java (though even CL might be useful
by betterunix 13y ago
Clojure seems like a pretty natural choice, especially if you are planning to use a lot of third party libraries written in Java (though even CL might be useful, if you use ABCL). I suppose the real question here is, "Why Java?" Are there technical considerations, or is it about the syntax being more familiar to potential readers, or is there some other consideration here?
- mark_l_watson 13y agoClojure is a natural choice. One reason this book uses Java is that I wrote the first edition in 1998, this being the fourth edition. I still like Java simply because I use Clojure and JRuby a lot and Java interop is easy. I love to write, and if I could get a world class Clojure coder (perhaps someone like Alex Ott, or someone with similar skills) to co-write, it would be fun to start over.