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86The Gay, Gay, Gayer Than Gay Flight Attendant
I know that I myself have been deemed effeminate and I've been made fun of most of my life because of it so in general I try to stay away from topics that concern specific people but on a recent Southwest flight I encountered the Gay, Gay, Gayer...
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82Why "traditional" text editors like Emacs and Vim are still best
Using an editor that understands the language you're working is a tremendous boon. Vim and Emacs are program editors, not text editors.
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82Unhygienic ("anaphoric") Clojure macros for fun and profit
Before I get into describing how I've found anaphoric macros handy, we need some background. Anaphoric is a word borrowed from natural-language grammarians, referring basically to pronouns: "using a pronoun or...
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77Don't use XML/JSON for Clojure-only persistence/messaging
XML is a popular, generic data-storage format, mainly because its plain-text encoding and mandatory matching close-tags make it easy for humans to read. But it's not especially easy for humans to edit, because it is so dang verbose: there is a lot...
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79Clojure: macro-writing macros
If you're writing a function and it gets big enough to be clumsy, I'm sure you know to break it down into multiple, smaller functions, each of which is comprehensible. Of course this is good practice in any language at all, but it's especially...
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78Build your own Clojure toolkit
In any programming language there are going to be chunks of code you want to reuse often. That's the whole point of programming languages, really; if you never reused anything you might as well program in...
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76Filk Music
Filk music originated in the 1950s when science fiction fans would gather at a convention for a sing-along. The word filk derives from folk. Apparently, there was a typo in the program flyer, and a new musical genre emerged! A filksong is often a...
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74The evolution of an idea
This post assumes some knowledge of Clojure, and is basically a first-person view of what I'm thinking about as I have an idea for an interesting function, write up a prototype, and gradually refine it.
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7370What is Clojure?
The programming language Clojure is an effort to bring the elegance, flexibility, and brevity of Lisp to the JVM platform.
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