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Unlock the full InfoQ experience by logging in! Stay updated with your favorite authors and topics, engage with content, and download exclusive resources. Cory Benfield discusses the evolution of ...

Clojure is a dynamic functional language for the JVM, recently released in version 1.0. Clojure offers a new set of programming techniques for robust code and rapid development. In particular, it has ...

Lisp is one of those languages that people either love or hate. Count me among the Lisp lovers. I was brainwashed during my undergraduate studies at MIT to believe that Lisp is the only "real" ...

Using the Java programming language, developers have difficulty making Java applications scale linearly. Beyond the initial handful of processors, every time you add a new processor to your system, ...

Four key concepts are essential for understanding Clojure’s functional programming paradigm. Here’s how to apply what you know about Java to learning Clojure. Clojure is one of the most fascinating ...

This month's column diverges from the normal pattern of covering my struggles with technology. When I started this column, I was really looking forward to the Software Development issue, because I was ...

“Clojure was instrumental in hiring that first round of programers,” an engineering manager said of the Center City company’s growth. Crossbeam engineers Nick McAvoy and Yiannis Nicolaou talking ...

Stack Overflow's annual developer survey was published this week, giving an insight into the skills, experience, and opinions of a wide slice of the developer community. Since its launch in 2008, ...

Computer languages reflect the goals, target audiences, and to some degree the personalities of their creators and their communities. As a result, even languages that are created with similar goals in ...