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The Clojure programming language, a dialect of Lisp, combines accessibility and simplicity with an infrastructure designed for multithread programming. In contrast to object-oriented languages that ...

Lisp is one of those languages that people either love or hate. Count me among the Lisp lovers. I was brainwashed during my undergraduate studies at MIT to believe that Lisp is the only "real" ...

I’m a software engineer at my day job, and I’m a long-time programming language junkie. Every so often I find that I need to spend time learning a new programming language, just to keep my brain ...

This month's column diverges from the normal pattern of covering my struggles with technology. When I started this column, I was really looking forward to the Software Development issue, because I was ...

Four key concepts are essential for understanding Clojure’s functional programming paradigm. Here’s how to apply what you know about Java to learning Clojure. Clojure is one of the most fascinating ...

Lux, a new Lisp-like functional language that runs on the Java Virtual Machine, has ambitions to pick up where similar languages leave off. Currently in an 0.5 beta release, Lux claims that while it ...

Quite true. Many Lisp-based implementations include compilers, and many can generate very nice code (especially if given some type hints). Some people are put off by Lisp's syntax (((((lots of parens, ...

On the scale of awesomeness, writing an operating system ranks near the top for software hackers and ranks just below writing a whole new language. [Lukas F. Hartmann] is reaching for the epic status ...