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rfrey on June 29, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: Guide to Programming Clojure For Beginners

C'mon, be gentle - he said a big reason to write a new blogging platform was to learn the new language. That's legit - dunno how many file system browsers I have lurking around my archives for the same reason.

sramsay on June 29, 2011 [–]

Yeah, just kidding. It struck me as funny, because it's exactly the kind of thing hackers do (including me -- and I'm also a big Lisp/Clojure nut).

As far as I can tell, this is more-or-less exactly how TAOCP was written.

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