Clojure for Newbs: An Introduction
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Luke Francl is a long-time web application developer, using everything from Perl to Tcl (yes, really!). Lately, he's focused on Ruby on Rails and Google App Engine. A Y Combinator alumni, he is also co-founder of Minne✱, which organizes MinneBar, one of the largest BarCamps in the world. He is the co-author of the PeepCode ebook "Receiving Email with Ruby" and has spoken at conferences around the world.
Clojure is real-world Lisp for the JVM (and soon, the CLR). As a functional language with a built-in Software Transactional Memory system, Clojure is ideal for today's highly concurrent architectures.
In this presentation, I'll introduce Clojure as I have learned it, by building a simple Bayesian classifier. This will be an introduction to the language by a fellow newcomer.
