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Joy of Clojure: The Movie

Oct 27, 2011

Made with Gource and ffmpeg and Github. Direct link :F

Programming language development: the past 5 years

Oct 18, 2011 some comments

I recently compiled a list of Perlis Languages that were meant to illustrate varying paradigms not typically found in mainstream programming languages. Those languages were meant to stretch your mind and are not necessarily representative of the state of the art ...

Why Clojure doesn’t need invokedynamic, but it might be nice

Oct 14, 2011 some comments

this is the third entry in an n-part series explaining the compilation techniques of Clojure.1 There was an interesting discussion about invokedynamic on the Clojure mailing list focused on the need for and potential benefits of invokedynamic. Granted this topic is often ...

The Elite Programming Language Fallacy

Oct 2, 2011 some comments

There are no programming languages that will make you "elite". In fact, there are no "elite" programming languages. "Elite" is as loaded a term as there could possibly be, but I would like to use (abuse?) it for the purpose ...

ClojureScript watchers and validators

Sep 23, 2011 some comments

Thanks to some nice work by Bobby Calderwood ClojureScript now has Atom validators and watchers. Some commentary below: Setting a validator Placing a validator on an Atom is as easy as: (def A (atom 0 :validator ...

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