A few weeks ago I posted about my initial impressions of CommonJS’s approach to concurrency, in particular the use of promises. Today I add my look at promises and futures in Clojure. I’m aware that I’m kind of writing these blog posts backwards. I’m learning more as I go, which means before I’m done I […]
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Nothing close to a complete review of all the quality talks I heard at RubyNation, the following is just a summary of cool things I learned about while attending. For other resources, and some of my own snarky comments, take a look at the Twitter Channel for the event: #rubynation TupleSpaces and Rinda Luc Castera […]
On the Clojure Google group there’s been a good discussion about lazy sequences and streams. The exchange goes to some of the fundamentals of the language, but if I have a decent grip on the issues, it sounds as though Mark Engelberg is concerned about the inefficiency of caching the results of evaluating n elements […]
The DC Clojure Study Group is digging into Clojure. One of our members, Luke VanderHart, contributed a program that parses a text file to build a Markov Chain generator: it will produce an arbitrarily long text that should mimic the style of the file you gave it by basing its output on the proximity of […]
Members of Fringe DC are organizing a Washington DC area study group around learning Clojure and hacking some righteous artifacts with it. The first meeting is Sunday, December 7, at 1PM at Chief Ike’s Mambo Room, 1725 Columbia Rd NW. We’ll be meeting in person for about 3 hours every 2 or 3 weeks, and […]
The programming language Clojure is enjoying a surge in recent activity and interest, capped by a presentation by its inventor at the end of the Lisp50 program at OOPSLA. Lispy has a good recounting of Hickey’s talk on his blog. There’s interest in forming a study group here in the DC area, under the auspices […]