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71Programming Languages in a Nutshell
The most popular and widely known computer programming languages in one page.
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64How to Create and Load a LISP file in Autocad 2008 Mechanical baby steps
The following tutorial contains 3 baby steps that will help you create, load and use a LISP file for Autocad 2008 Mechanical without any previous Autocad knowledge or skills, so don't you worry, you're on the right track. 1. What is a LISP file?...
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79Unhygienic ("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 similar word instead of repeating a...
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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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76Build 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 machine code (you can think of the language...
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69The 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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78Why "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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83Clojure: 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...
2 comments74What 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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65Best Lisp Book
This is definitely an incredible book. For anyone who is enthusiastic about discovering what Lisp is all about I'd reason that this is actually the best Lisp book. Despite the fact that presently there are numerous great books about typical lisp,...
