Clojure: first contact

$ java -cp clojure-1.0.0.jar clojure.lang.Repl
Clojure 1.0.0-
user=> (+ 1 2 3)
6
user=> (. javax.swing.JOptionPane(showMessageDialog nil "Hello World"))
nil
user=>

Ooh ah! :D

Tired old monopolies...

I'm sick and tired of tired, old monopolies delivering me webpages like:

http://content.digitalwell.washington.edu/msr/external_release_talks_12_05_2005/14072/unsupported.htm.

All I wanted to do was view what looked like a very interesting presentation on software development at http://www.researchchannel.org/prog/displayevent.aspx?fID=569&rID=9490.

I'm not going to even try to watch this now.

There's too much other good stuff out there.

Lawyers patenting precedents :D

"What would happen if lawyers would take out a patent on all the precedents every time they win a case, and someone cites that case, they have to pay a license fee to them, and so on..." - Donald Knuth.

Great line :)

From Questions Answered.

N.B. quote above is roughly paraphrased based on the video (link above).

Steve Jobs demos Apple Macintosh, 1984

Just read Why's Poignant guide. Last 3 or 4 pages were particularly poignant (yep) given his recent disappearance.