Mailing-List: contact dev-help@couchdb.apache.org; run by ezmlm
Precedence: bulk
Reply-To: dev@couchdb.apache.org
Received-SPF: pass (nike.apache.org: domain of paul.joseph.davis@gmail.com
 designates 209.85.220.180 as permitted sender)
MIME-Version: 1.0
In-Reply-To: <E5EDA162-BB01-4FB8-842E-F76316A0BD61@aptela.com>
References: 
 <CA+Y+446q9vHG4VPe8oqWSSDuiFdkUaq9JO_gqRSBQbcJvPaJLA@mail.gmail.com>
 <E5EDA162-BB01-4FB8-842E-F76316A0BD61@aptela.com>
From: Paul Davis <paul.joseph.davis@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 7 Mar 2012 00:48:56 -0600
Message-ID: 
 <CAJ_m3YBP+3txAwjQe6OKr6iBMVD0ohQicP=MFbRY588gbcUv3w@mail.gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Elixir
To: dev@couchdb.apache.org
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

Hah!

I spent a few hours with it as well over the weekend wondering if I'd
fall in love and try rewriting core parts of CouchDB with it. There
are a number of good bits to Elixir that I liked. Its the first time I
saw an explanation of the Lispy quote/unqoute stuff that made me
understand what was going on but I ended up with the same general
response as Mahesh.

I will be keeping an eye on it for awhile to see what comes of it but
for the time being, I agree, "Why?" is a good description of my
feeling. The docs and code I read and played with gave me an uncanny
valley feeling for writing things in Erlang. Ie, "I understand how
this translates to Erlang and I can't justify not just writing the
Erlang and removing the added complexity of Elixir".

* Historical foot note for Bob Dionne, Elixir is the first Lisp
dialect that made me reconsider if all those parens really are that
silly... Well no. But maybe they had a decent idea or two in there
somewhere.

On Tue, Mar 6, 2012 at 5:52 PM, Mahesh Paolini-Subramanya
<mahesh@aptela.com> wrote:
>
> I spent a (somewhat painful) weekend messing around with it - it basicall=
y
> reads like a bit of an unholy cross of Javascript, Ruby, and erlang. =A0T=
he
> "somewhat painful" bit is that both JS and Ruby give me hives (not as muc=
h
> as Java, but I 've suffered through *that* since 95). =A0Anyhow, the pseu=
do-OO
> nature is ok, if you like that sort of thing, and the 'language
> simplification" kinda sorta works, but I was basically left with an
> overwhelming feeling of "why?".
> There does seem to be an awful lot of "Make XXX work like Ruby" going on
> out there :-)
>
> Again, I'm a perl/erlang guy, so take *all* the above with a huge pinch o=
f
> salt...
>
> cheers
> Mahesh Paolini-Subramanya
> CTO
>
> Vocalocity - Powering Small Business
> 1375 Peachtree St. NE, Suite 200, Atlanta, GA 30309 USA
> Office 312.281.9923
> mahesh@vocalocity.com=A0 |=A0www.vocalocity.com
>
>
>
> On Mar 2, 2012, at 2:15 PM, Noah Slater wrote:
>
> Yo,
>
> What do peeps make of this:
>
> http://elixir-lang.org/
>
> Thanks,
>
> N
>
>