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His point that Clojure will prove almost as difficult as Java because you have to figure out what to make REFs of seems wrong to me. He is missing the point th
by jstraszheim 17y ago
His point that Clojure will prove almost as difficult as Java because you have to figure out what to make REFs of seems wrong to me. He is missing the point that the remaining stuff in Clojure is purely functional, and therefore really nothing like Java.
- briancooley 17y agoIndeed. The most difficult thing about concurrency in Java to me is that mutability is idiomatic in the language. The fact that you have to use refs to mutate state in Clojure has provided me incentive to find functional ways to write code.