Previous Parts: I, II, III, IV. I’ve always maintained that the only way to really learn a programming language is to code up some kind of project using it: not something out of a book, but something ...

In Part I, I talked about Clojure and the need for a convenient “REPL”: a piece of software that lets you type input at the language engine and see its responses. In Part II I talked about Leiningen, ...

Four key concepts are essential for understanding Clojure’s functional programming paradigm. Here’s how to apply what you know about Java to learning Clojure. Clojure is one of the most fascinating ...

The Clojure programming language, a dialect of Lisp, combines accessibility and simplicity with an infrastructure designed for multithread programming. In contrast to object-oriented languages that ...

This month's column diverges from the normal pattern of covering my struggles with technology. When I started this column, I was really looking forward to the Software Development issue, because I was ...

Elixir is a functional programming language built on the Erlang virtual machine, BEAM. Its association with Erlang, a language known for its ability to provide fault tolerance and scalability in ...