On Lisp -> Clojure (Chapter 5)

Oct 24, 2008

; Chapter 5, entitled "Returning Functions", is where we really start to see the power of functional programming. It is the types of problems outlined in the chapter where Clojure really shines. In fact, many of the functions created by ...

On Lisp -> Clojure (Chapter 4)

Oct 8, 2008 one comment

; As always, I will post when the code is "complete", but my progress can be followed on Github. Also, this post is executable, just copy and paste into a Clojure REPL. ; pg. 42 ;; PG defines a general find function (find2) ...

On Lisp -> Clojure (Chapter 2 - redux)

Oct 2, 2008 one comment

; It seems that my first two chapters were well received, and garnered some positive comments and constructive criticisms (except for the commenter who talked about viagra and offshore betting). The main point made by readers was that my code was ...

On Lisp -> Clojure (Chapter 3)

Sep 30, 2008

; As always, I will post when the code is "complete", but my progress can be followed on Github. ; Chapter 3 was a relatively short chapter (code-wise). It dealt mostly with side-effects and the virtues of a more functional style to ...

On Lisp -> Clojure (chapter 2)

Sep 26, 2008 some comments

Inspired by Stuart Holloway's excellent series porting Practical Common Lisp to Clojure and Ola Bini's bad-ass port of Paradigm's of Artificial Intelligence to Ruby. I have started my own quest to port Paul Graham's On Lisp to Clojure. I have made it ...

Continue