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Joy of Clojure TOC Updates

Mar 10, 2010 some comments

Chouser and I are working hard to get the material for the upcoming (next week, covering chapters 1-7) technical review in order. However, we hope to have an update to the MEAP available sooner rather than later. However, the http://joyofclojure.com ...

De-chunkifying Sequences in Clojure

Jan 22, 2010 some comments

At the first CAP CLUG meetup I gave a presentation about the features of the recent Clojure 1.1 and one of the topics that garnered interest was that of chunked sequences. For those of you not familiar with chunked sequences they ...

Writing the Next Clojure Book

Jan 11, 2010 some comments

Now available for purchase! Some of you may already know this, but for those unaware I have teamed up with Chris Houser to write a Clojure book for Manning Publishing. The precise details of how this came about are too numerous to ...

Comparing Lines of Code: Scala and Clojure (FUD version)

Jan 4, 2010 some comments

A completely tongue in cheek comparison between Scala and Clojure, implementing the famous closure test. Scala Version1 type Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious = java.lang.Integer implicit def Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious2Int(tehThingToConvert:Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious) = { tehThingToConvert.asInstanceOf[Int] } trait ClosureTestMixin { def makeAdder(tehAdditionValue:Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious):Function1[Int,Int] } class AdderMaker extends ClosureTestMixin { def apply(tehAdditionValue:Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious):Function1[Int,Int] = { ...

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