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Today in the Intertweets (July 20th Ed)

Better late than never. I finally got access to the Internet, just to realize that there is some kind of ‘virtual’ language war going on: Clojure vs Haskell vs Scala vs … vs who-knows-what-language. Oh well! The mandatory link to “Someone is wrong on the Internet” can be found here.
Here is what happened in the [...]

Today in the Intertweets (July 15th Ed)

a question on hacker news… chime in… “why should i care about #clojure?” (here, via @SeanTAllen) — In order to motivate you to chime in, here is the mandatory link to “somebody is wrong on the Internet”
Next #clojure training at Mountain View on July 31st by @arathore and me – only 6 spots left (here, [...]

Today in the Intertweets (July 14th Ed)

As disclojure hinted yesterday, Clojure 1.2.0-beta1 is out. Congratulations to all and many many thanks to Rich and crew for pouring countless hours and brain cells into this project. From what I am gathering from comments here and there, this beta release might not cause a huge disruption in the young Clojure ecosystem, since there [...]

Today in the Intertweets (July 13th Ed)

The Scala camp’s answer to Clojure’s Incanter (Yes, it’s fun to pretend there’s a rivalry between the two) (here, via @MSch) — Scalala, Scala Linear Algebra Library.
How to setup Clojure from scratch (here, via @acangiano) — With emphasis on the “from scratch” part. Kids, don’t do this at home without adult supervision. Use Lein or [...]

Today in the Intertweets (July 12th Ed)

Awesome! The 20 minute form of my “Clojure for Ninjas” talk was accepted at the Stange Loop (via @brweber2) — Strange Loop getting VERY interesting! Try  Ctrl+F “Clojure” on that page…
Wadler’s Law (extended to Clojure) (here, via @fogus) — A true statement. Feature discussions on Clojure are much more focuses on parenthesis than in semantics.
Joe [...]