Clojure is running in a live system in a big veterinarian hospital

http://groups.google.com/group/clojure/browse_frm/thread/85649a134cf22655

by sctb • 18 years ago

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gsmaverick• 18 years ago

Great milestone, and I thought functional languages didn't have practical uses. Shame, shame.

msie• 18 years ago

I see. Test on animals first and then on humans. :D

jamongkad• 18 years ago

Well it is built on top of the JVM.

bpyne2• 18 years ago

Even in jest I would never want to make a comparison between the Draize Eye Test and a new software system built on a relatively new language.

nihilocrat• 18 years ago

I want to see someone make a game / game engine using Clojure plus the graphics library of their choice.

dimitar• 18 years ago

Isn't the lack of OO in Clojure a problem? As far as I know most game programmers like to program in C++ and OO is supposed to be especially suitable to making games.

I am certainly not an advanced programmer, I would like a pointer to some resources on the subject.

edit: Naughty Dog is a successful game company that used Lisp, but with a OO style: http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?LispInJakAndDaxter

JulianMorrison• 18 years ago

Clojure doesn't have objects, but it has hashmaps and (multiple distinct first class) synthetic hierarchies and multimethods. Compared to that, conventional OO looks a bit crude.

tricky4• 18 years ago

Is there anyone else on HN who gets excited about distributed HL7 systems and healthcare?

icey2• 18 years ago

I don't know if you're being facetious or not, but I think that it's interesting that they trusted a very new language for doing health care related work.

tricky4• 18 years ago

I'm serious. I get snubbed every time I mention a healthcare startup to a group of hackers. This is me saying, "hey, look, it _can_ be cool..."

ponnap• 18 years ago

From the link above, it appears that they came up with an integration product that pretty much talks to all other systems at the customer site. Given this, I would speculate that the product probably does not deal with data that probably automates/affects/interferes with a patients diagnosis/procedure atleast as of now.

ccarico• 18 years ago

You are not alone. I think it is amazing to see newer technologies incorporated into HL7 systems.

nradov• 18 years ago

Yes, I deal with that stuff every day. I've built what's probably one of the more complete implementations of the HL7 V2 messaging standard.

bpyne2• 18 years ago

Yes, absolutely! I spent nearly 4 years working in a hospital on the EMR systems. Seeing your software in use when a patient is coding in the CCU is both humbling and exciting - the patient lived. It motivates you to tighten the UI and insure data quality beyond what you'll do for any other field. Having severe budget constraints - I believe - caused us to be more innovative than any other IT department or vendor I've worked for.

Clojure is running in a live system in a big veterinarian hospital

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