Month: August 2019

  • CLOjure SHell

    I’ve been playing with CloSH, the Clojure Shell. And I have to say, I’m sold. If you’d like to have the full power of Clojure. And to write shell scripts that look like this : [cc lang=”clojure”] (doseq [f (expand “*jpg”) (println f) (sh identify -format “%wx%h” (str f)) (println)) [/cc] rather than in hard…

  • What's up? August 2019 Edition

    Gosh … we’re half way through the year already. So what am I up to in programming? Clojure I still think it’s a wonderful language. Not doing as much as I’d like. But it’s still great. One thing I did a few months ago was port the terminal version of Mind Traffic Control to it.…

  • How would you design the perfect programming language?

    Another Quora answer I should be moving here : Phil Jones’s answer to How would you design the perfect programming language?   Well, the obvious way you’d approach it, is start with a reasonable knowledge of using other languages to get a sense for their strengths and weaknesses. And start with some good role models.…