Clojure Programming
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Clojure Programming
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Re: Clojure Programming
#2IIRC, O'Reilly was flat-out refusing to publish any Lisp books as recently as 2005. How things have changed. :)
Re: Clojure Programming
#3IIRC, O'Reilly was flat-out refusing to publish any Lisp books as recently as 2005. How things have changed. :)
Last I looked, their author proposal FAQ still has that exclusion.
FYI, a Common Lisp book nearly made it out of the gate a couple of years ago, Nick Levine's 'Lisp Out of the Box'. The contents of it are available under a Creative Commons license:
Re: Clojure Programming
#4IIRC, O'Reilly was flat-out refusing to publish any Lisp books as recently as 2005. How things have changed. :)
Just curious, does anyone know why O'Reilly would refuse to publish any Lisp books?
Re: Clojure Programming
#5Does anyone know of a good web framework for Clojure? Perhaps a rails of django equivalent?
I love using Java for the exact reason the author claims Clojure is so powerful--the magnitude of libraries.
If a decent web framework is available, then I would be inclined to give it a go.
Re: Clojure Programming
#6Does anyone know of a good web framework for Clojure? Perhaps a rails of django equivalent? I love using Java for the exact reason the author claims Clojure is so powerful--the magnitude of libraries. If a decent web framework is available, then I would be inclined to give it a go.
Re: Clojure Programming
#7Does anyone know of a good web framework for Clojure? Perhaps a rails of django equivalent? I love using Java for the exact reason the author claims Clojure is so powerful--the magnitude of libraries. If a decent web framework is available, then I would be inclined to give it a go.
There's Noir, which is more minimalistic that Rails, but it's easier to customize as a result. I've had some fun playing around with it, but I personally haven't used it in production yet.
webnoir.org
Re: Clojure Programming
#8Does anyone know of a good web framework for Clojure? Perhaps a rails of django equivalent? I love using Java for the exact reason the author claims Clojure is so powerful--the magnitude of libraries. If a decent web framework is available, then I would be inclined to give it a go.
This is probably the best overview out there: http://brehaut.net/blog/2011/ring_introduction, though it doesn't mention the new kid on the block, Noir (http://www.webnoir.org/)
Re: Clojure Programming
#9IIRC, O'Reilly was flat-out refusing to publish any Lisp books as recently as 2005. How things have changed. :)
Just curious, does anyone know why O'Reilly would refuse to publish any Lisp books?
I guess they didn't consider the market for Lisp books very profitable:
»We're NOT looking for: (...) Books on topics that have dismal sales despite quality books being available. (If you're addressing a topic where good books have sold dismally in the past (for instance, LISP, LaTeX, or Web-based training), you have a much higher threshold to clear with your proposal. Convince us why there is a revival of interest in your topic, or why your approach to a deadly topic will provoke interest nonetheless.)« (from http://oreilly.com/oreilly/author/writeforus_1101.html)
However, in 2009 an O'Reilly editor wrote: »I think there's reason to believe that's changing, particularly with the right book; LISP awareness has been growing for the past couple of years. Our Haskell book has outsold expectations; Erlang has obviously made a comeback; so there has been a relatively recent shift in the language map.« (from http://lisp-book.org/talks/eclm-2011-10-23/plan.txt)
Re: Clojure Programming
#10IIRC, O'Reilly was flat-out refusing to publish any Lisp books as recently as 2005. How things have changed. :)
Just curious, does anyone know why O'Reilly would refuse to publish any Lisp books?
Because it takes some effort to write a good Lisp book. There are several very good books: SICP, PAIP, AMOP, On Lisp, PCL, LoL, ...
Also typical Lisp hacker won't buy a slightly edited and printed version of the HyperSpec or a printed version of the SBCL manual.
Add to that that Lisp made a deep dive after the AI winter and that they were sure to not sell enough copies. At that time it was also a good idea not to be connected to Lisp.
Plus, I guess they did not like Lisp. 'Clojure' has the 'advantage' not to use 'Lisp' in its name.