Today in the Intertweets (Oct 27th Ed.)

  • Tim Bray’s thoughts on Tail Call Optimization and why he likes the explicit recur call in Clojure (here, via @pjb3) — It seems that Tim Bray is paying close attention to clojure and liking what he sees…
  • A couple of SICP examples in clojure: Integral calculation with Simpson’s rule (here)  and  Fixed-point calculations — and square roots (here, via @m_holmqvist)

  • An Interview with @stuarthalloway about Clojure (here, via @publicfarley) — you read his book, now you’ll hear his voice :)
  • Introduction to Clojure – A green paper from Manning  (here, via @amitrathore) — you’ll need to surrender your email to obtain the paper, but it is worth it
  • I’ve played around a bit with the Clojure-like Agent concurrency concept in #scala. Hoping for some feedback (here, from @vaclav_pech) — it is interesting to see the cross pollination of the concurrency features between languages. I believe Groovy is getting a similar feature in their GPar library for parallelization.

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