Clojure

Python string APIs are powerful and concise, that is an important reason I use it to do a lot of scripting these days, join, split, strip, to name a few. Since I am learning Clojure recently, I am wondering, how is string manipulation like in Clojure and how to implement equivalent ones? I think it's an excellent opportunity to get familiar with Clojure. Before diving into the implementation, how to declare a multi-line string? [Read More]

I'm used to learning by practicing, so when I learned Clojure, I always kept an eye on chances to write code in it. Scripting is an excellent field to practice, but the experience is not so good. On the one hand, it's too hacky to wrap Clojure code in a shell script with the shell bang. On the other hand, the startup time of JVM is too long to hurt the user experience. [Read More]