u/yogthosin r/Clojure • Recommends
Clojure for Lisp Programmers, a lesser known talk by Rich Hickey (2012)
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Clojure for Lisp Programmers Part 1 - Rich Hickey
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- Presented by Rich Hickey, creator of Clojure
Intermediate. Assumes working knowledge.
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Rich Hickey introduces Clojure to Lisp programmers, explaining the design decisions and trade-offs made relative to traditional Lisps.
Part 1 of a presentation by Rich Hickey at the Boston Lisp meeting. A fairly extensive introduction to Clojure, with a presumption of prior knowledge of Lisp. Transcript available at: clojure.googlegroups.com/web/clojure-for-lispers-transcript.…Why it's here
2 people recommend thisWhat people say. Recommended as an essential resource for understanding Clojure's design philosophy from its creator.
toshon Hacker News • Recommends
On “Clojure for Lisp Programmers (2008)”
Context: this is not only a very good introduction to Clojure and the design decisions made by Rich Hickey it also is a video that isn't very widely known. The video was uploaded to Youtube after the migration from Blip.tv but somehow got broken ( link to this video ) and lived in a parallel universe in Youtube. I remember I found the video a few years ago but was unable to watch it. Last year someone re-uploaded the video to Youtube and it seems to works now. Transcript: link
u/u0xeein r/ProgrammingLanguages • Mentions
On “What is the modern day lisp ?”
…can either implement that all themselves in usually c or c++, or they can use an existing platform such as the jvm which is a sophisticated billion dollar c++ codebase that is extremely battle tested and highly optimised, which also gives you access to one of the largest library ecosystems. See "clojure for lisp programmers" if that's interesting: link to this video
That said, Christian Schafmeister has a common lisp implementation called Clasp which I've always found very intriguing. It uses LLVM for codegen with a goal of interoperating with c++ libraries seamlessly, for scientific computing purposes. Definitely check out his presentations linked from the github, they are amazing: https://github.com…
joe-useron Hacker News • Mentions
On “Effective Programs: 10 Years of Clojure”
> Pity he hadn't heard of Armed Bear Common Lisp ( link ), which runs on the JVM. He was certainly aware of SBCL. He had a number of reasons for not wanting to use it. 1 > I don't mind mutable state, since the real world is not functional: I hear this argument often, but the "real world" is not linked lists or hash maps or mutable or 0s and 1s either, but they are all useful representations. > real programs are all about side effects Clojure has plenty of facilities for side effects, and without having to resort to monads (though you could if you wanted). 1: link to this video
aidenn0on Hacker News • Mentions
On “Scripting in Common Lisp”
…at can't be ignored is that Hy selected the clojure syntax, which is going to be a turn-off for anyone coming from Lisp or Scheme. Finally, there are hundreds of thin s-expression layers on top of existing languages, and most of them are terrible; Hy has done nothing to stand out from this crowd, so most lispers will not look closely at it. 1: See link to this video for Rich's discussion of how he managed this issue in Clojure.…