Posts with keyword: clojure

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Languages Have Power

Mon Sep 16 14:08:00 2013

Programming language choice matters. Languages have the power to push us out of familiar ways of working and into new ways of thinking. But using a language out of the mainstream takes real courage.
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Tail Optimized Mutual Recursion in Clojure

Sat Nov 29 12:08:00 2008

Clojure, a LISP-dialect dynamic language that targets the JVM has been generating some interest in the programming language community lately. By targeting the JVM, Clojure gets speedy performance in a cross platform way. One of the problems with targeting the JVM with a dynamic language that relies heavily on recursion is that the JVM doesn't support tail recursion (also called tail call optimization). The idea is pretty simple: for some common patterns of recursion the function call can be removed and the recursive function be optimized to a loop. The result is not only programs that run faster, but
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