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[Johan Gardner]

I'm an oldie, philosophy grad started in IT in 1988, been in IT ever since.

I used a scheme based language, called 'monk' (yes really), over 10 years ago (1999), where I learnt a solution/environment/programming style not dissimilar to clojure.

During that time java arrived, 'cool' in so many ways, but still bottoming out even now .... OpenJDK taking up the baton as we speak.

Anyway, my java development experiences were 'ok', but not 'OMG'. Don't get me wrong here, java is ok. All I'm saying in my experience is that solving issues in my domain (integration) was OMG with a language like clojure back then (and still is with clients still running the stuff now!). 

So. for me (at least), when solving new (integration) problems I will most definitely be open minded, which means using the right aspects of the available technology for the problem in hand. So, I'll not reinvent, but much rather reuse and foster inter-community collaboration.

I'm an (in)experienced fumbler so far (notepad/vi being my IDE), but I love the programming style, and from my recent experience of the clojure community I really like it and will support it as best I can. Keep up the good work!

Cheers - Johan