Event Details

GatorJUG

Time: February 11, 2009 from 6pm to 9pm
Location: Santa Fe Community College, room S318
City/Town: Gainesville
Website or Map: http://www.gatorjug.org
Phone: 407-622-WEBS
Event Type: meeting and presentation
Organized By: Michael Levin
Latest Activity: Feb 11, 2009

Export to Outlook or iCal (.ics)

Event Description

Eric Lavigne will give a presentation on Clojure. Clojure abstract

Clojure is a dynamic programming language that targets the Java Virtual Machine. It is designed to be a general-purpose language, combining the approachability and interactive development of a scripting language with an efficient and robust infrastructure for multithreaded programming. Clojure is a compiled language - it compiles directly to JVM bytecode, yet remains completely dynamic. Every feature supported by Clojure is supported at runtime. Clojure provides easy access to the Java frameworks, with optional type hints and type inference, to ensure that calls to Java can avoid reflection.

Clojure is a dialect of Lisp, and shares with Lisp the code-as-data philosophy and a powerful macro system. Clojure is predominantly a functional programming language, and features a rich set of immutable, persistent data structures. When mutable state is needed, Clojure offers a software transactional memory system and reactive Agent system that ensure clean, correct, multithreaded designs.

This presentation will introduce the Clojure programming language. You will learn how to write simple Clojure programs, how to use Java code from Clojure, and how to use Clojure code from Java. You'll learn how to use agents and software transactional memory to make multithreaded programming easier. You'll also see a few examples of how Clojure can save you from re-implementing the same patterns over and over again.


Bio

Eric Lavigne is a Java programmer for UF's Bureau of Economic and Business Research. He has written several Clojure web development tutorials on his blog at http://ericlavigne.wordpress.com

We will have several interesting things to raffle off, including a ticket to the upcoming Miami Flex event! See the event here in Codetown events for details.

Comment Wall

Comment

RSVP for GatorJUG to add comments!

Join Codetown

Attending (2)

Not Attending (1)

Happy 10th year, JCertif!

Notes

Welcome to Codetown!

Codetown is a social network. It's got blogs, forums, groups, personal pages and more! You might think of Codetown as a funky camper van with lots of compartments for your stuff and a great multimedia system, too! Best of all, Codetown has room for all of your friends.

When you create a profile for yourself you get a personal page automatically. That's where you can be creative and do your own thing. People who want to get to know you will click on your name or picture and…
Continue

Created by Michael Levin Dec 18, 2008 at 6:56pm. Last updated by Michael Levin May 4, 2018.

Looking for Jobs or Staff?

Check out the Codetown Jobs group.

 

Enjoy the site? Support Codetown with your donation.



InfoQ Reading List

From Architecture to Deployment: How AI-Powered Toolkits Are Unifying Developer Workflows

Developer tooling is undergoing a shift as AI moves beyond code completion to unify multiple stages of the software development workflow.

By Matt Foster

OpenAI Launches BrowseComp to Benchmark AI Agents' Web Search and Deep Research Skills

OpenAI has released BrowseComp, a new benchmark designed to test AI agents' ability to locate difficult-to-find information on the web. The benchmark contains 1,266 challenging problems that require agents to persistently navigate through multiple websites to retrieve entangled information.

By Vinod Goje

Swift 6.1 Enhances Concurrency, Introduces Package Traits, and More

Swift 6.1, included in Xcode 16.3, introduces several improvements to the language and the Swift Package Manager, including type-wide global actor inference control, support for trailing comma in lists, package traits for conditionally exposing features based on the platform, and enhancements to Swift Testing.

By Sergio De Simone

Cloudflare Upgrades D1 Database with Global Read Replication

During the recent Developer Week 2025, Cloudflare announced the beta of global read replication for its serverless SQL database D1, providing a globally distributed option without sacrificing consistency. With automatically provisioned replicas in every region, applications can now serve read queries faster while maintaining strong sequential consistency across requests.

By Renato Losio

QCon London 2025 Day 3: AMQP Politics, Serverless Databases, Betrayal in Security and Architecture

The 19th annual QCon London conference took place at The Queen Elizabeth II Conference Centre in London, England. This three-day event, organized by C4Media, consists of presentations by expert practitioners. Day Three, scheduled on April 9th, 2025, included two keynote addresses by John O'Hara and Hannah Foxwell and presentations from five conference tracks.

By Michael Redlich

© 2025   Created by Michael Levin.   Powered by

Badges  |  Report an Issue  |  Terms of Service