If there’s anything I could’ve noticed changed lately in my professional interests since I’ve started programming in Clojure, that’s a gradually rising wish, or I’d say a sort of a desire, to learn more about programming language concepts. It’s not that long ago when I had to write an application in Haskell, OCaml or SML [...]

I’ve been reading the source code of a Clojure snippet in Is this a closure? If so, why? that eventually made me wonder why people keep using doto over the -> (“threading”) macro. You can find a bit information on the -> macro in Understanding the Clojure -> macro or fire up Clojure’s REPL and… [...]

Let me state it now before it gets too late and I get blamed for spreading FUD or alike – I’m no expert at concurrency and have had very little to no exposure to the area. It’s been on my todo list for way too long and when I’ve heard about Clojure and its attempt [...]

There’re many ways to replace one character set to another, and after a year or so with Clojure I’ve just realized there’s one truly functional (and possibly idiomatic) – use of map as a function of its keys to make it happen. With the map function, they make the conversion really pleasant. So, instead of [...]