1. lisp is Borg
A study in macrology
@sbelak
Tuesday, 22. October, 2013

2. JVM
dynamic
lisp
Clojure
REPL
immutable
lazy
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functional

3. ClojureScript*
* javascript as ASM
Tuesday, 22. October, 2013

4. Clojure in Clojure
Tuesday, 22. October, 2013

5. homoiconicity:
code = data
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6. Tuesday, 22. October, 2013

7. (
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code = data
)
=
AST

8. Macros
data = code
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9. Macroexpand
vs.
time
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run
time

10. Problem language
macroexpand-1
macroexpand-2
...
macroexpand-n
implementation language
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11. “It’s better to have 100 functions operate on
1 data structure then 10 functions on 10
data structures.”
– A. Perlis
Tuesday, 22. October, 2013

12. Pattern matching
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13. Logic programming
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14. Typed Clojure
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15. Schema
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16. CSP (goroutine)
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17. code = data
Tuesday, 22. October, 2013