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Minor pedantic rant: Moore's law has not died. Mo...

2009-04-21T16:02:00.000-05:00

Minor pedantic rant: Moore's law has not died. Moore's law is about the number of transistors in a chip, not about MHz, so the switch to building out the number of cores is helping to keep the law alive.

Thanks Fred. To be honest I know very little abou...

2009-04-15T12:14:00.000-05:00

Thanks Fred. To be honest I know very little about Clojure, so I will put it on my todo list and will refrain from commenting on it until I do. Can you believe it, me showing restraint? Insane!

It must be that I am hungry and about to leave for lunch right now:)

A language like Clojure gives you many of the conc...

2009-04-15T11:33:00.000-05:00

A language like Clojure gives you many of the concurrency semantics of Erlang and Haskell, as well as the tooling and investment you've made in the Java platform. You could certainly level some of the same challenges against Clojure that you leveled at Scala. However, I do feel like pointing out that Clojure has more Erlang-like actor concurrency, and immutability semantics that are more like Erlang's and Haskell's. It also has a software transactional memory system like GHC 6.

Obviously, as with any JVM language that relies on libraries that were written in Java, your thread-safety is only as good as the Java code you're depending on. But if your experience with your tools gives you good confidence in their solidity, building on top of them may not be such a bad thing.

Anyway, good overview! Just throwing something else into the mix....