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Today in the Intertweets (Dec 7th Ed)

Our #Clojure book has gone out for technical review. :O (via @fogus) — this is a new book (no title yet) on Clojure by Manning, by @fogus and @chrishouser. No date for the MEAP (early access) yet.
How ’bout a #clojure debug-repl? (here and here, via @georgejahad) — insert a REPL instead of a ‘println’ in [...]

Twitter list (at last!)

This short post is to let you know I finally go around to create a twitter list for Clojure. I’ll keep adding fellows who tweet often about Clojure.
Follow this list by visiting this page disclojure/clojure and clicking on the “Follow this list” button.

This weekend in the Intertweets (Dec 6th Ed)

String Interpolation in Clojure (vs. Scala ? ;-) — “Can your language do this?”, part 47 (here, via @cemerick) — How to provide Clojure with string interpolation similar to Ruby or Groovy. That’s a nice feature to have! Will this make it to a reader macro as the author suggests? We’ll see.
My ports of Clojure [...]

Today in the Intertweets (Dec 3rd Ed)

Exciting day today. The flightcaster guys are giving to the community two significant pieces of code:

Crane is #clojure #aws #hadoop #clusters #ec2 #s3 #ssh #repl #goodness (here, via @bradfordcross) — Crane is a… well, imagine what verbs go between the names in the original post and you’ll realize it is an awesome tool. Just kidding! [...]

Today in the Intertweets (Dec 2nd Ed)

Some reactions to Tim Bray’s “11 theses on Clojure“:

About Clojure/Lisp readibility  (here, via @stilkov) — I still don’t understand what the fuzz is about Lisps being hard to read… this article just shows how weak this argument against Lisp is. Don’t miss Rich Hikey’s comment.
About “Clojure being a Lisp is a Handicap” (here, via @tiagoantao) – [...]