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Outside of tech and corporate circles people could really give a damn. They just want to get things done.

Care to give an answer better than "some book some java dudes wrote 20 years ago said so"?

While I generally agree with SRP, when that single responsibility can be expressed in a single function, I don't see the win with have a class dedicated to it. Smells of pedant OO nonsense.

Is not instantiation etc a cross-cutting concern that violates SRP in this instance?

There are technical difference as well, but I think that's less of an issue.

    He's not interested in furthering his studies to make more money.

    "The richness is in me, in my heart and in my head, not in my pockets," said Filipaj, who is now an American citizen.

Way to be scrappy, Patrick.

That said, as others have noted, if you're hiring quality people, there's no reason they can't learn Clojure on the job. Plus if you make an investment in your people they're more likely to be invested in you ;)

    Will it be open source?

    I'm a firm believer in open source software and open
    source technologies. I can guarantee you that Light Table 
    will be built on top of the technologies that are freely 
    available to us today. As such, I believe it only fair 
    that the core of Light Table be open sourced once it is 
    launched, while some of the plugins may remained closed 
    source. At some level, this is an experiment in how open 
    source and business can mix - it will be educational for 
    us all.

http://janestreet.com/minsky_weeks-jfp_18.pdf See part 4 "Personnel" for Jane Street's experience hiring OCaml devs.

  Speakers:
    Alex MacCaw — Spine.js
    Steve Sanderson — knockout.js
    Dan Webb — Top Secret
    Erich Ocean — Blossom
    Miško Hevery — Angular
    John Bender — jQuery-mobile
    Jeremy Ashkenas — backbone.js
    Yehuda Katz — ember.js
    Tom Dale — ember.js
    Nick Small — batman.js
    Harry Brundage — batman.js

Essentially you write your application in standard html/css/js and are then able to distribute OS-specific applications for all major platforms.

Similar to PhoneGap, but I think the results are a bit better with desktop apps :) (especially something as "simple" as a text editor.

... also also a student's cost of living as opposed to a seasoned software engineer's is probably pretty disparate (for better or worse).

Too often Sci-Fi books go down this path as well, taking what could be an otherwise compelling story and turning it into ... this. (Daemon by Daniel Suarez is the first thing that comes to mind)

I should make it a point that frank discussions of sex and human sexuality don't bother me in the least, but drugged-up-sex-power-struggle-bullshit? Mer.

I think you'll find this point of contention won't work against raganwald: https://github.com/raganwald/rewrite_rails

(not sure if this is true, perhaps GHC is smart about it).

If nothing else, superfluous derives would seem to distract/obfuscate your intent.