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| | nurkiewicz.com
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| | Clojure is a dynamically, strongly typed programming language. It's a dialect of _Lisp_ running on the Java Virtual Machine. Lisp is 6 decades old and has a really weird syntax. That weird syntax is called _Polish prefix notation_. Basically, in every other language you've used math operators like plus or minus are infix. It means they are placed between operands. For example, `1 + 2`. In Clojure, you always put the operator (or any other function for that matter) in front. So simple addition becomes... `+ 1 2`.
| | thomascountz.com
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| | [AI summary] The article discusses the development of a markdown-to-HTML compiler called markie, explaining the core steps of compiler architecture including lexical analysis, parsing, and target code emission, with examples using Ruby and real-world applications.
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| | In a purely functional language - like lambda calculus - programs are expressed as nested function calls. Repetition in such an environment requires that nesting of function calls continues until some condition is met. During the repetition, each function passes its result to the next function in the nested chain and this repetition is completed when a test for some condition passes. The repetitive behaviour I've just described is recursion:
| | dragon.best
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| Programming language for kobolds