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Looks very promising! For a couple of years I've been thinking more and more about both jumping into the Java world and finally embracing a functional language;
by RyanMcGreal 17y ago
Looks very promising! For a couple of years I've been thinking more and more about both jumping into the Java world and finally embracing a functional language; and Clojure seems like a great opportunity to take on both at the same time.
One note: I noticed what looks like a Markdown artifact in Footnote 3, in which the URL for the Wikipedia entry on jumping the shark appears to have interpreted the underscores in "Jumping_the_shark" as signifiers that "the" should be emphasized (i.e. rendered in italics).
- fogus 17y agoGood catch! Thanks for pointing that out. We're writing the entire book in a bastardized version of Markdown and Yak-shaving some bits to do so. Unfortunately little things like this still need to be ironed out.
- runevault 17y agoI noticed the italics but don't have a solid enough knowledge of markdown to have realized that was what it was. Neat!
- RyanMcGreal 17y agoIt's a common gotcha in markdown. Some implementations, e.g. Python-Markdown, actually default to ignoring middle-word emphasis. Others, e.g. Python-Markdown2, have ignoring middle-word emphasis as an optional parameter when calling the function.