Comments on Jay Fields' Thoughts: Lessons Learned while Introducing a New Programmin...

Hi Jay, Great stuff, thanks for sharing this. As ...

2012-02-11T10:29:58.815-05:00

Hi Jay,

Great stuff, thanks for sharing this. As a Clojure fan, I'd be really interested in knowing if there were Clojure-specific issues which caused problems during adoption.

What about Groovy? I'm a long time Scheme pro...

2012-01-27T04:21:44.939-05:00

What about Groovy?

I'm a long time Scheme programmer and I have to admit that I found Groovy a complete pleasure to program in; and my co-workers w/ much more Java experience than I, found it easy to learn.

Damn well try Scala! In its vehicle mode, it'...

2012-01-27T01:32:49.593-05:00

Damn well try Scala! In its vehicle mode, it's a much nicer, cleaner, more modular object-oriented language than Java. In its robot mode, it's like Haskell for the JVM!

In our company i introduced and successfully integ...

2012-01-27T00:20:29.674-05:00

In our company i introduced and successfully integrated first clojure and then 2 years later haskell.

Nowadays haskell is our primary language with clojure to fallback in case of missing libraries (for example pdf manipulation)

Like the post. Have not been in a similar situatio...

2012-01-26T15:11:43.471-05:00

Like the post. Have not been in a similar situation myself.

I have looked into Scala myself and if someone wants to try to do something similar, I personally would try to introduce Scala, especially since the syntax is more familiar and you get both functional and iterative programming. Besides, Scala is one of those languages like Erlang and Haskell that is supposed to be able to take better advantage of the power of having multi-core processors, another selling point in my opinion. I don't know the current benchmarks though.

Excellent post.

2012-01-26T12:50:03.672-05:00

Excellent post.

In the last company I have worked in as an employe...

2012-01-26T11:45:28.080-05:00

In the last company I have worked in as an employee, I have tried to introduce Ruby - but I have been faced with very staunch resistance.

It's not easy at all to introduce a new programming language - there is the overhead of teaching that language to current resources - who may or may not want to learn it, and, more importantly, you will have legacy code that you will still need to support.

Thanks for sharing your experience. If you have an...

2012-01-25T02:13:41.251-05:00

Thanks for sharing your experience. If you have any meaningful examples that you're allowed to share I'd love to see some of those Java/Clojure snippets.