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by markc 12y ago
I find Clojure to be a very pragmatic language that excels at getting real work done and also happens to be interesting intellectually. On the other hand, your ability to quickly get stuff done in Clojure depends on a fairly radical change
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by markc 13y ago
The city site isn't bad either - http://www.somervillema.gov/ Yeah, 20 years ago I wouldn't have considered a move here. Been here since August last year and we really love it. The city "works" with effe
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by markc 13y ago
Damien's writeup is well worth a read, esp. by programmers who want to know what it takes to get to a high level of proficiency. The Iris work appears to have been a critical experience in preparing Damien to write Couch. Anyone who wa
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by markc 13y ago
James P. Hogan's "Voyage from Yesteryear" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voyage_from_Yesteryear is another SciFi work where a post-scarcity economy figures prominently, including some funny scenes with new
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by markc 13y ago
If you're ever near Maryland head over to the National Cryptologic Museum where you can see a CM-5 still running. I just saw it a couple days ago.
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by markc 13y ago
Why not let him speak for himself? https://github.com/joyent/libuv/pull/1015#issuecomment-29568... "Hi all, let me try to clear up a few things. Why I rejected the pull request. Us maintainers tend to re
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by markc 13y ago
Implementations already exist for the CLR as well as Python, C, Scheme, and of course JavaScript. LLVM appears to be in the thinking stage still: https://github.com/halgari/clojure-metal
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by markc 13y ago
>you can almost write the actual code just the pseudo code. Yes, often true. E.g. in this case: (->> [2 3 4 7 5 3 11 12 7] ;collection (group-by even?) ;get a map of evens and odds vals ;get
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by markc 13y ago
Consider Clojure - an interesting language indeed, and the browser variant (ClojureScript) is gaining lots of interest.
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by markc 14y ago
Very cool! Is there any hope of a slime / nrepl unification? I think a lot of people would like to be able to slime-connect to this remote repl from Emacs.