debian and other off-work projects
I met another debian package maintainer today for gpg key signing and general chat. I understood how horribly outdated I am, with the happenings in the debian world though I still manage to read some of the debian emails. It provided enough motivation for me to work on some of my packages.But that would mean taking time off from my Lisp study.
I have not been able to keep up with SICP videos though I managed to see (multiple times) up to 4b. I need to catch up with the book though. Currently I am working through Seibel’s Programming Common Lisp. I have also set my eyes on Clojure and had been going through its features. I also worked some small programs with it and found it to be incredibly powerful. It has immutable data structures which is better suited for creating pure functional programs, unlike CL where data is mutable.
I have zero Java knowledge though and often find myself struggling to use java classes from clojure.
Syndicated 2009-11-08 08:00:00 from Ramakrishnan Muthukrishnan