41: Clojure pre-history with Chris Houser
Chris Houser (Chouser) reflects on the early years of Clojure, Clojure's features, and applying the lessons of Clojure elsewhere.
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Show Notes
Chris Houser (Chouser) reflects on the early years of Clojure, Clojure's features, and applying the lessons of Clojure elsewhere.
Note: this podcast was recorded in April 2020 but not published until now. Some of the references are a little outdated, but there’s still some great stuff here that I wanted to get out.
In particular, it doesn’t seem like COVID spreads via metal surfaces very much.
(00:00) Intro
(00:27) The Joy of Clojure
(03:55) Clojure history
(10:55) Clojure and parallel programming
(15:59) Macros
(18:18) Lessons from Clojure
(22:30) Did Erlang have the right idea all along?
(28:08) State of the world in April 2020
(30:31) 3D Printing
- The Joy of Clojure
- 40% discount code (good for all Manning products at manning.com in all formats): podrepl20
- Tru64 UNIX
- Ender 3 3d printer
- Onshape
- Weight lifting bar collar 3d model
- Gerbil feeder