Today in the Intertweets (Aug 31st Ed)

  • Protocols are faster than Clojure multimethods. Can be as fast as direct func calls in fact and inlined by hotspot (via @chouser) — This is an important fact.
  • Clojure or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Parentheses (here, via @nathanmarz) — This is an article that explains one of the main differences between Lisps and other mainstream languages: the ability to extend the the language –even create your own mini-languages– to fit your purposes from within the host language itself and without adding any accidental complexity to the system.. Most other languages add accidental complexity when trying to do so.
  • Sweet, a Clojure Ring adapter for Mongrel2 by mikejs (here, via @zedshaw) — This allows you to run Ring/Compojure applications inside Mongrel2, a cool new language agnostic web server.

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