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khill on July 2, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: Shall We Use Clojure?

Sure but people need to go on vacation, multiple projects need to be worked simultaneously, developers may leave their jobs, etc.

There are lots of good reasons to have multiple developers on a project other than simply throughput.

DennisP on July 3, 2012 [–]

Maybe you don't want to replace three java programmers with one clojure programmer, but it might not be so bad to replace fifteen java programmers with five clojure programmers.

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