Nice reads mostly older:
- [jvm] YouDebug – A debug with a scriptable UI (not a GUI). Allowing for automated debugging. The main justification for this is e.g. on costumer sites where you cannot fire a graphical debugger. But an automated debugging framework can be the ground for some cool debugging tools. Furthermore it is scriptable in Groovy!
- [general]Are we there yet? – “Rich Hickey advocated for the reexamination of basic principles like state, identity, value, time, types, genericity, complexity, as they are used by OOP today, to be able to create the new constructs and languages to deal with the massive parallelism and concurrency of the future”. This is a 1 hour video (with synchronized slides). While I disagree with the basic premise that concurrency is fundamental in the future, this presentation is one of the most invaluable videos about the design of programming languages.
- [lisp] A Lisp User-group meetings calendar (Google based)
- [clojure] Be mindful of Clojure’s binding – Pitfalls of lazy sequences and thread bindings. The lazy sequence stuff seems more of an example of global variables are bad thing, as the example is dependent on an external symbol evaluation, but clearly one has to be mindful of lazy versus non-lazy evaluation.
