The future of Clojure

[23:08:29] abaranosky: what do you all think of transducers?
[23:08:50] TEttinger: they're just as much people as cisducers
[23:09:00] Clarice: Hahahahah
[23:09:05] Clarice: abaranosky: I think they're pointless.
[23:09:26] TEttinger: I haven't used reducers yet, but I see their point
[23:10:45] abaranosky: Clarice: I See they're designed so they can be used with sequences and also channels...  I haven't looked into how they could be used with other types of things
[23:11:06] abaranosky: would it be possible to make them work with other things like futures or promises?
[23:12:23] TEttinger: abaranosky: megaducers in 1.8.0
[23:12:43] TEttinger: we're just going to get ducing all over
[23:13:00] TEttinger: every version a new *ducer
[23:13:12] mthvedt: i demand recursively enumerable ducers
[23:13:33] TEttinger: duceducers
[23:13:54] TEttinger: paraducers, xenoducers
[23:14:17] mthvedt: nonconstructable ducers
[23:14:25] Clarice: epiducers
[23:15:05] TEttinger: the first being a transducer that runs in parallel to another transducer, the second like F#'s type downloader thing that can transduce over unknown data
[23:16:35] TEttinger: panducers, which generate mexican pastries whenever you run them
[23:17:55] TEttinger: omniducers, which run over your entire program
[23:19:40] abaranosky: TEttinger: I like it, keep em coming
[23:20:20] TEttinger: swearducers, which turn your program into swearjure and then overwrite the file
[23:21:02] TEttinger: preducers, which run before you start the program to evade JVM startup
[23:22:03] TEttinger: theoducers, which work if you believe they will
[23:23:02] TEttinger: franzducers, which if the process is killed, start a world war
[23:25:38] TEttinger: chronoducers, which manipulate how the rest of your program perceives time
[23:26:53] TEttinger: schroducers, which are both running and not running simultaneously until dereferenced, at which point your program collapses
[23:29:42] TEttinger: inducers, which make your program do things it would really rather not do
[23:30:18] TEttinger: deducers, which are just a fancy name for core.logic
[23:31:25] TEttinger: LANducers, which distribute your program over every gaming console in the immediate vicinity
[23:32:23] TEttinger: treeducers, which brick your computer to stop wasting electricity
[23:33:37] TEttinger: viducers, which are exactly like transducers but only work if you edit the code in vi or vim
[23:34:22] TEttinger: biducers, which are simultaneously two different types of *ducer
[23:34:50] TEttinger: triducers, which are simultaneously 3, and WHYducers, which are simultaneously all of them
[23:37:10] TEttinger: I'm done ducing
[23:37:33] justin_smith: duck duck transduck