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Programming languages to watch: LiveScript, Julia, Elixir
A tour of 3 potentially-very-useful languages that have been submitted to learnxinyminutes.
Adam Bard
LearnXinYminutes is a static site (via Middleman) featuring short coding tutorials for a variety of languages. Nothing too interesting in the stack, but it has survived some good traffic storms for being a straight Nginx+static deployment, despite living on a 512mb virtualhost that also serves a bunch of other sites…
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Just what does “code as data” mean anyway? (2014)
Recently, I’ve seen popular articles on macros and metaprogramming in Nimrod and Elixir . Both of these are wonderful metaprogramming systems, to be sure, but I couldn’t help but imagine some in the audience smirking inwardly – and occasionally less inwardly. What odd syntax! How out-of-place they are! If only there…
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Clojure.core: Batteries Almost Included
The clojure.core team maintains a variety of high-quality and useful libraries for all sorts of tasks. Join me on a journey through their github account to sample the libraries formerly known as contrib
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Clojure's core.typed vs Haskell
I compare code between typed clojure and Haskell implementations of project euler solutions to examine the differences and similarities.
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Writing Friendlier Clojure
I love the Clojure language, but I don’t think there’s any use pretending that the combination of expressiveness, power, and repl-driven development can result in some staggeringly dense code. Everyone that writes Clojure is guilty of this at one time or another; you start with the core of your function, evaluate it…