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Hitchhiker's Clojure has a New Home

Sun, 16 Feb 2014 14:57:00 +0000

The Hitchhiker’s Guide to Clojure posts now have a new home to make it easier to read them in a chronological fashion.

There is also a public repo - feel free to contribute spelling and grammar fixes, or your great ideas.

Hitchhiker's Guide to Clojure - Part 3

Sat, 15 Feb 2014 13:48:00 +0000

Amy and Frank fled down the stairs from her office and met an unexpected obstacle to their exit, a locked door. As they peered out the window, they saw yesterday’s Amy pull up in the parking space, get out, retrieve her laptop, and start to head in the front door.

“Oh good, we can take your car”, said Frank.

Amy took a second to recover from the shock of seeing what her hair really looked like from behind and then asked, “But, how can we get to it? The door is locked, and we can’t go back up to the office… I would meet myself.”

Hitchhiker's Guide to Clojure - Part 2

Sat, 08 Feb 2014 21:20:00 +0000

Amy and Frank were hurtled quite rapidly through time and space after attaching themselves to a transaction headed through the Datomic Transactor. From there things slowed down a bit, then took a sharp left and ricocheted off again with incredible speed until they landed in another Datomic Peer, and finally appeared in the same room. Amy was quite startled by the anti-climatic nature of the whole dematerializing and rematerializing in the same exact spot, and didn’t really know what to do next. She surveyed her office and found it exactly the same, except for two distinct details. For one, the pistachio shells had disappeared, and for another, the date on the computer showed yesterday at 8:00 am. She tried to connect these facts rationally with the pistachios in her pocket and finally said,

Hitchhiker's Guide to Clojure

Sat, 01 Feb 2014 19:33:00 +0000

The following is a cautionary example of the unpredictable combination of Clojure, a marathon viewing of the BBC’s series “The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy”, and a questionable amount of cheese.

There have been many tourism guides to the Clojure programming language. Some that easily come to mind for their intellectual erudition and prose are “The Joy of Touring Clojure”, “Touring Clojure”, “Clojure Touring”, and the newest edition of “Touring Clojure Touring”. However, none has surpassed the wild popularity of “The Hitchhiker’s Guide to Clojure”. It has sold over 500 million copies and has been on the “BigInt’s Board of Programming Language Tourism” for the past 15 years. While, arguably, it lacked the in-depth coverage of the other guides, it made up for it in useful practical tips, such as what to do if you find a nil in your pistachio. Most of all, the cover had the following words printed in very large letters: Don’t Worry About the Parens.