My Corner of the World

A couple months ago , I posted some thoughts I was having about writing a DSL that would make it possible to write Clojure without the s-exp...

I always find it interesting when I read praise being heaped onto StackOverflow and StackExchange. Let's see, they run a business, it...

And now things are starting to get interesting. Multimethods are implemented. I would have a hard time using Clojure without them. Various o...

This post has been planned for several weeks now. After I saw this presentation I was in the mood to finish it. Although I question the cho...

Here's the link . And they were hoping to accomplish what, exactly? I've never heard of geeklist before, and I don't expect th...

This post is of the brainstorming variety. It is a project that I might undertake in the future, when I have time. Many programmers (not m...

Here are a few things I've noticed when I've (attempted to) show Clojure to others. I'm not saying that my sample (n=4) is repre...

I played around with clojure-py this weekend. I jotted down some initial thoughts on the advantages of Clojure in pure Python in an earlie...

Web developers, I'll let you in on a secret. I know you've never heard this outside of your small circle of friends. It'll proba...

Edit: Here's the link Not good enough for me to do it myself, but I'd be very happy if someone else did it. Why? You'd give...

I've been using Scala for a little over a week now. Here are some preliminary thoughts on Scala vs Clojure. (i) Scala is a better Java...

No, C pointer syntax does not make sense, even if the author of this post understands what it represents. Let me begin by saying that the c...

This post is mostly for my own reference, but I suspect that others might be interested as well. First, a brief explanation. In the C++ (ie,...

Ended up with some free time to play with Scala again today. Like many programmers, I learn a language by doing the things I do in other lan...

My main programming language is still R. Incanter, while a nice attempt, is definitely not anywhere close to allowing Clojure to be a replac...

stackoverflow is a wonderful site. It's the first place I go when I have a question related to programming. Unfortunately, I think it...

It appears that I didn't do a good job of writing my previous post about Emacs and Clojure. I was trying to give a flavor of what someon...

So I wanted to help someone get started with Clojure today. For those who haven't done much with Java before, the incredible overhead a...

The world needs "Introduction to Functional Programming Using Clojure". This is needed for at least two reasons. First, the exis...

Plugged in my USB LaserJet, and it didn't work. I tried hp-setup and localhost:631, but it kept saying nothing was detected. After som...