Michael Fogus's Blog, page 22
April 6, 2011
All in the family
I've been thinking lately how useful it is to classify Clojure as "a Lisp". I suppose doing so provides a basis for minimal information: macros and uh…. parentheses. The problem is that neither is unique to, nor emblematic of the Lisp family of languages. Lisp is the only family of language that is tied so [...]
April 5, 2011
#_(< (count common-lisp) (count clojure))
There has been some talk about the number of forms available in Clojure compared to Common Lisp. I find this line of thought puzzling. This is the same line of thinking that has been thrown at Common Lisp for ages — and the argument grows no more valid over time.1 The only reason that we [...]
March 29, 2011
Predicate Dispatch…
… in Clojure? Could be. More to come. Until then: Efficient Predicate Dispatching by Chambers and Chen Practical Predicate Dispatch Efficient Predicate Dispatch in Dylan (ppt) :f
March 28, 2011
Joy of Clojure in print
The Joy of Clojure is now in print. All print book purchases from Manning.com include a FREE ebook (PDF, epub and mobi when available.) :f
March 27, 2011
The long-lost art of thoughtfulness in blogging
Whether this blog qualifies as a thoughtful blog is debatable, however in my time I'm come across great examples of blogs that strive to further the quality of online discourse.1 The following are not always technical in nature, but they will teach you much regardless. in no particular order. totally dead (even if bitching) blogs [...]
March 18, 2011
OOPs! Aphorisms!
Somewhere on the Internet… OO isn't really a design consideration, it's a metaphor. — Reginald Braithwaite Skepticism sets in… OOP describes the real-world in the same way that the metaphor "Raganwald is a diamond in the rough" describes your ability to act as a piece of jewelry. — Fogus Also… Functional Programming puts all the [...]
March 14, 2011
Scala. Fare Thee Well
Today marks a turning point. In addition to being my first day as a member of Clojure/core and a programmer of record for Relevance Inc., it also represents my last day as a paid Scala programmer. I discovered Scala in mid-2007 and have used it professionally since early 2008. Needless to say; I have enjoyed [...]
March 10, 2011
Old Sun Technical Reports
Start here Have fun. :f
March 9, 2011
Recursion is a low-level operation
Yesterday I demonstrated how to transform a mundane recursive function into a tail recursive function. However, I received some flak for that post because there are better ways to implement run-length encoding with Clojure. While certainly true, I think some of my critics1 missed the point of the exercise. ;-) Having said that; their points [...]
March 8, 2011
Transforming an accumulating mundane recursive fn into a tail-recursive fn (with Clojure)
this example is in Clojure, but the general principle stands regardless of language Transforming an accumulating mundane recursive function to a tail-recursive function using a helper function. 301 Moved Permanently
nginx/0.7.67 See Common Lisp: A Gentle Introduction to Symbolic Computation for more information about this [...]
