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Clojure is a programming language that shares the powerful meta-programming facilities of Lisp, has an agent-based approach to concurrency like Erlang, and can use or implement Java libraries.
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Howard gave a talk about Clojure last night at the GatorJUG. Wow! We all learned so much. Howard used IntelliJ Idea to code on the fly from memory. We saw some sweet functionality and I think we're all excited about learning more. If you missed last…Continue
Started by Michael Levin Feb 13, 2014.
My bud Matt Raible blogged about reading a Scala book and I mentioned Stuart Holloway's…Continue
Tags: raible, lavigne, composure, clojure
Started by Michael Levin Jan 16, 2010.
Last nights GatorJUG prestation on Clojure with Eric Lavigne introduced us to Clojure's language elements. Say your customer, a timeshare company, wanted a new database driven reservation website. Build a case for Clojure and lay out a reasonable…Continue
Tags: reservation, system, timeshare, RDBMS, web
Started by Michael Levin. Last reply by Eric Lavigne Jan 16, 2010.
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