@avi/plangs

Clojure notes

⏱ Functional Programming

Pure Functions, mutations and states, PDS, STM for transactions

EDN syntax for both plang and data. Code is data

Run programs on multi CPU architectures. Atoms, agents, refs and vars

declerative styled scheme like syntax with dynamic dispatch

web client code in cljs

Declerative styled REPL driven development

Dynamic dispatch using defmulti and defmethod. With free transaction retry support

Rich Hickey in 2007
Frontend Built on top of JVM
Lambda Claculus yields a small language core, Other language features are implemented as MACROS
Accepted in HOPL (opens new window)
Implement erlang like message passing distributed systems using Actor Model
No Assignment Operator, use let and def

*[HOPL]: History of porgramming languages

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