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 […]
SICP
Many people approaching a new language, particularly a new Lisp, often explore the new language by attempting to implement examples and exercises from canonical Lisp texts. Paul Graham’s On Lisp, Peter Siebel’s Practical Common Lisp, and Abelson and Sussman’s SICP are ususal suspects. I’m not going to attempt any large-scale “translation” of SICP into Clojure, […]