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I'm a tinkerer with technology, and occasionally strike lucky with it. I co-chair the O'Reilly Open Source Convention and I'm in charge of designing O'Reilly's conference software platform, Expectnation.
I've written a few computer books, most recently "Learning Rails", in collaboration with my old friend and co-conspirator Simon St.Laurent.
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Incanter can be used as a standalone, interactive data analysis environment or embedded within other analytics systems as a modular suite of libraries.
Exciting! More grist for the Clojure-curious.
A lot of people talk about how wonderfully expressive is Clojure. However, expressiveness is not the goal of Clojure. Clojure aims to minimize accidental complexity, and its expressiveness is a means to that end.
I am loving everything Nathan writes about Clojure right now. This concluding paragraph is a wonderful summary of the primary attraction of Clojure to anybody who's written software for more than a few months.
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Clojure gets data structures right
This quote comes from a detailed explanation of why the author uses Clojure. But this simple sentence resonates most. The whole post is very much worth reading.
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I'm a professional JavaScripter so you shouldn't read this as Us vs. Them. But if you're interested in a really high performance evented webserver that has the same delicious lack of ceremony of Node.js, I recommend playing around with Clojure and aleph.
I hope nobody paints this as too much of a religious war. As far as I'm concerned, Node.js and Clojure/aleph have a lot in common, and are exposing developers to a more efficient way of writing applications. (To be truly efficient in writing JavaScript, your keyboard needs a }); key of course.)
I really need a spare hacking weekend to get on top of this. I've been looking for the right way in to Clojure web applications, and aleph is very intriguing.
For reference, here's Hello World in Clojure/aleph
Incanter is a (use 'aleph)
(defn hello-world [request]
(respond! request
{:status 200
:headers {"Content-Type" "text/html"}
:body "Hello World!"}))
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