Written by Eric Normand. Published: March 22, 2012
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Theme of the week: Clojure/West
Clojure Gazette
Issue 1.2 - March 22, 2012
editorial
Mining Clojure/West
Clojure/West happened last week. I did not go, but I will have to go next time. I look forward to all of the presentations that will soon be on the web. Meanwhile, we can mine the posts and tweets that emanated from San jose.
This book is a study of data-driven programming and functional programming techniques to build classical AI solutions to classical AI problems. From a version of Eliza to Planners.
A great thing about people using Clojure is that they are very open to inspiration from other languages. This talk is from a Python core developer about the overuse of classes and object-orientation currently drilled into us at University. Good stuff with practical, real-world examples of unnecessary use of classes.
Alan Kay is certainly a giant in the field. Fogus captured part of a mailing list thread where Kay expressed what he thought were big ideas in programming languages.