Clojure is for Type B personalities

#1

Post by priyatam » Thu, Jan 21, 2016, 10:32 PM UTC

Clojure is for Type B personalities
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Re: Clojure is for Type B personalities

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Post by PaulHoule » Thu, Jan 21, 2016, 10:44 PM UTC

A vs B is a matter of reaction to stress (as it affects the heart), not organizational prowess.

Re: Clojure is for Type B personalities

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Post by vorador » Thu, Jan 21, 2016, 11:28 PM UTC

Somehow related: "The bipolar LISP programmer" (http://www.lambdassociates.org/blog/bipolar.htm).

Re: Clojure is for Type B personalities

#4

Post by hartror » Thu, Jan 21, 2016, 11:28 PM UTC

Pop psychology meets programmer mythology.

Re: Clojure is for Type B personalities

#5

Post by galfarragem » Thu, Jan 21, 2016, 11:37 PM UTC

hartror wrote: post #4

Pop psychology meets programmer mythology.

My experience fits in his model though. I'm type A and more into ML languages than Lisp. Maybe not strictly type A: Java is too boring for me..

Re: Clojure is for Type B personalities

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Post by mikejholly » Thu, Jan 21, 2016, 11:44 PM UTC

Loved it. Thanks!

Re: Clojure is for Type B personalities

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Post by atemerev » Thu, Jan 21, 2016, 11:44 PM UTC

I am a type B person (if this designation even makes sense), and have a diagnosed ADD.

However, I prefer statically typed languages like Scala, as it is easier for me to compensate for lack of internal discipline with external constraints.

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Post by such_a_casual » Thu, Jan 21, 2016, 11:47 PM UTC

vorador wrote: post #3

Somehow related: "The bipolar LISP programmer" ( http://www.lambdassociates.org/blog/bipolar.htm ).

Yep, that's me.

Re: Clojure is for Type B personalities

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Post by ronjouch » Thu, Jan 21, 2016, 11:48 PM UTC

If you're interested in Clojure, the gist author (Zach Oakes) maintains a few cool projects [1]:

- play-clj, a Clojure game library

- Nightcode, an IDE for Clojure

- Nightweb, an anonymous P2P social network in Clojure

and (non-Clojure) - SolidOak, an IDE for Rust

Also, his "Making Games at Runtime with Clojure" talk [2] is great.

[1] https://github.com/oakes

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0GzzFeS5cMc

Re: Clojure is for Type B personalities

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Post by kevinwang » Thu, Jan 21, 2016, 11:53 PM UTC

galfarragem wrote: post #5

hartror wrote: post #4

Pop psychology meets programmer mythology.

My experience fits in his model though. I'm type A and more into ML languages than Lisp. Maybe not strictly type A: Java is too boring for me..

I guess we could actually test this empirically with a survey.