I was thinking lately about the different philosophies programming languages expose when it comes to guaranteeing code semantics. It’s interesting to compare two of my favorite languages - Ruby and Clojure - and a third I like, but don’t know well enough to love: Haskell, since each lies at a different point along the imperative [...]

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Most of this post will be about Clojure, a LISP dialect that is implemented on top of the JVM. The Clojure community is quickly growing; every day you’ll find new blog posts describing people’s experiences with it. The Clojure mailing list is filled with helpful posters and great advice; the Clojure IRC channel is, similarly, [...]

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