Today in the Intertweets (Oct 29th Ed.)

• *Lazy* tail-recursive QSort in #Clojure from Chouser. Beautiful (via @fogus)

  (take 3
       ((fn [x]
            (qsort (take x (repeatedly #(rand-int x)))))
            100)))

• flightcaster, runa.com, incanter: It seems clojure’s sweet spot is analytics! what accounts for this? (via @silkodyssey)
  • dynamic functional langs are well suited to analytics plus Clojure’s access to java libs (via @liebke, Incanter)
  • one big reason is the functional aspect of Clojure – analytics is lots of math – the second is macros (for DSLs) (via @amitrathore, runa.com)

• Loaded Spring context into Clojure. Now have entire application and context at my fingertips via the REPL (via @JulienChastang) — that is an interesting use of clojure… how did you do that?
• OSGi + Clojure is awkward. @romanroe is doing good work in this area, see here (via @njbattlett)
• Observations from a real-world Clojure project (here, via @dewitt) — a very interesting read, wether you’re programming clojure or thinking about doing it. 4) is particularly relevant
• Building a Google Wave robot in Clojure (here, via @thnetos)
• Before you complain about Clojure being slow, read this (via @hackerlinks)