This weekend I ran a little experiment between using Clojure and Ruby. The results were a bit surprising.
I started working on some problems in SCIP; in this case it was electronic circuit simulation. I was doing problems and following along with the text using Clojure. And I spent most of Saturday fussing with code and moving through the material. On Sunday I decided I would start programming in Ruby. And it was a lot easier to get readable code up and running and move further along through the examples, that I hadn't gotten to the day before, using Ruby.
Now I haven't done a lot of Clojure programming in the past few months but I spent most of last year doing Clojure in my spare time and I even have one web project under my belt in Clojure. I have never written anything larger than a one file script in Ruby, I have written very little Ruby ever, and have only written any Ruby since mid January.
If my next experiment between Ruby and Clojure comes out with Ruby visibly more productive than Clojure. I will still use Clojure but I will have a hard time justifying its use outside of "for my own pleasure" programming.
I started working on some problems in SCIP; in this case it was electronic circuit simulation. I was doing problems and following along with the text using Clojure. And I spent most of Saturday fussing with code and moving through the material. On Sunday I decided I would start programming in Ruby. And it was a lot easier to get readable code up and running and move further along through the examples, that I hadn't gotten to the day before, using Ruby.
Now I haven't done a lot of Clojure programming in the past few months but I spent most of last year doing Clojure in my spare time and I even have one web project under my belt in Clojure. I have never written anything larger than a one file script in Ruby, I have written very little Ruby ever, and have only written any Ruby since mid January.
If my next experiment between Ruby and Clojure comes out with Ruby visibly more productive than Clojure. I will still use Clojure but I will have a hard time justifying its use outside of "for my own pleasure" programming.
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