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What's Next Paris: Howard Lewis Ship on Towards the Essence of Programming

Towards the Essence of Programming
What is the essence of programming? How close do popular languages such as Java bring you towards that essence? In this session, we'll discuss Clojure, a language for the Java Virtual Machine that builds on a 40+ year history of Lisp: the programming language that's also a programming language toolkit. Clojure combines the best features of Lisp with the breadth and power of the Java Virtual Machine and the Java infrastructure; it allows you to build expressive, beautiful code … without sacrificing any of Java's processing power. Once you embrace Clojure's odd (to our eyes) syntax, you'll find that its interoperability with Java, its pragmatic approach to functional programming, and its advanced concurrency capabilities are all easily approachable. Clojure turns traditional object-oriented programming on its head: separating data from the functions that operate on that data, with the end result being more concise, more performant, more testable, more readable code: code that gets to the essence of programming.

ABOUT HOWARD LEWIS SHIP

Howard Lewis Ship is the creator and lead developer for the Apache Tapestry project, and the creator of the Apache HiveMind project. He has over twenty years of full-time software development under his belt, with over twelve years of Java.
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This session took part at the What's Next Paris. You can view the other 7 podcasts here.

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