As I continue my forays with Clojure, I’m finding it enjoyable (if not entirely productive) to hack with it on Cryogen, a nifty little blog generator I already discussed recently. On Sunday I had the privilege of making my first pull request. The essence of the PR was to fix a couple of bugs with the existing implementation of the logic for generating a Table of Contents for a given blog post, and also replace a less robust algorithm (for real-life use cases) with a more robust one. ...

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• clojure

As a continuation of my forays in interesting and less industrially-oriented programming languages, I decided to compare F Sharp against Clojure for a relatively simple programming problem, and to compare how the two felt in terms of programming ease, friendliness, and how they each viewed the problem. The Problem The problem is a relatively one from Reddit’s “Daily Programmer” subreddit, called JSON Treasure Hunt: given a random, unstructured JSON object, traverse the object looking for a specific terminal value (in this case, a string “dailyprogrammer”). ...

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• clojure
• f-sharp

As part of my forays in interesting (and generally unusable at work) programming languages, I began investigating Clojure back in June. Although I really love the language as a whole (and, in fact, I’m using it to power this blog!), I struggled not only to set it up, but to find its ideal niche. This essay/rant is a result of a conversation I had about Clojure with two friends, one who is an excellent polyglot programmer, and one who is a beginner simply interested in Clojure as a practical Lisp. ...

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• clojure

Have you ever seen advertisements for the latest computers which promote fancy processors with multi-core processors and wonder exactly the advantage of having multiple cores is? The most tempting explanation, although perhaps too simplistic, is that “more is better”. The most common mistake is thinking that n cores must run programs n times faster than one core, ie a four core processor is approximately four times faster than a single-core processor. ...

• programming
• concurrency

The end of the fall semester is always a very special time of year. The hubbub of plans for winter break are omnipresent, festive lights illuminate themselves around campus, and most importantly of all, professors finally get around to assigning all their term projects with scarcely three weeks left with which to complete them. This isn’t news to my fellow upperclassmen, although the sophomores may only just begin to experience this for the first time. ...

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