Re: DDJ for Clojure/Lisp/FP

2011-03-21 Thread defn
#1 in your list of suggestions is a really great idea. The majority of literature on that facet of clojure is severely lacking IMHO. Cheers, Devin On Mar 21, 5:16 pm, Phil Rand wrote: > This sounds like a great idea, Gregg.  Having you and other professionals > involved could make a huge differ

Re: DDJ for Clojure/Lisp/FP

2011-03-21 Thread Andreas Kostler
> 1) A tour of the Java / JVM ecosystem for clojure programmers with little or > no Java background. What are the libraries, frameworks, and tools every > clojure programmer should know about, even if he or she never writes a line > of java? How do we use them from clojure? Actually this mig

Re: DDJ for Clojure/Lisp/FP

2011-03-21 Thread Phil Rand
This sounds like a great idea, Gregg. Having you and other professionals involved could make a huge difference, though I do wonder whether the market is big enough to justify your time. I was about to say it's worth a try, but I can't make that judgement for you. I would certainly be an eager r

Re: DDJ for Clojure/Lisp/FP

2011-03-21 Thread Gregg Williams
I'm writing again to report on the community's interest in my previous post. Two people expressed an interest in providing modest amounts of time to make a community-supported Clojure magazine (or magazine-like entity) happen; one of them has significant technical editing skills himself. So we've g

Re: DDJ for Clojure/Lisp/FP

2011-03-15 Thread patrickdlogan
The ACM published Lisp Pointers, I think from around 1988 to 1995. That was along these lines of a semi-formally peer-reviewed journal. They are in the ACM Digital Library. If you have access, they might serve as inspiration for overall flow and/or specific kinds of articles. -- You received t

Re: DDJ for Clojure/Lisp/FP

2011-03-14 Thread Andreas Kostler
I am :) That's why I started this discussion. On 15/03/2011, at 2:30 PM, Gregg Williams wrote: > Let me introduce myself. I was senior editor at BYTE magazine from > 1979 to 1988, where I wrote many cover-story articles, developed/ > edited innumerable articles, and was responsible for a number o

Re: DDJ for Clojure/Lisp/FP

2011-03-14 Thread Gregg Williams
Let me introduce myself. I was senior editor at BYTE magazine from 1979 to 1988, where I wrote many cover-story articles, developed/ edited innumerable articles, and was responsible for a number of issue themes (including the IBM PC, FORTH, and Lisp (Feb. 1988)). From there, I went to Apple (1988-1

Re: DDJ for Clojure/Lisp/FP

2011-03-14 Thread Martin DeMello
On Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 5:23 PM, Andreas Kostler wrote: > Something along those lines. The key would be to have low publication latency > e.g. articles undergo a initial review in a matter of hours so it > still has the blog vibe to it but undergo stricter quality control. The Monad Reader [http

Re: DDJ for Clojure/Lisp/FP

2011-03-14 Thread Alex Miller
I have written a long-form article on zippers and tree-editing in Clojure under contract for CQ. I talked to Peter a few weeks ago and he is still working on the first issue. Hopefully it will emerge. :) Alex On Mar 13, 9:28 pm, Andreas Kostler wrote: > On 14/03/2011, at 12:05 PM, Alan Dipert

Re: DDJ for Clojure/Lisp/FP

2011-03-14 Thread Andreas Kostler
Something along those lines. The key would be to have low publication latency e.g. articles undergo a initial review in a matter of hours so it still has the blog vibe to it but undergo stricter quality control. On 14/03/2011, at 8:57 PM, Nick Zbinden wrote: > This sounds very good. It would hav

Re: DDJ for Clojure/Lisp/FP

2011-03-14 Thread Nick Zbinden
This sounds very good. It would have to be start up with one topic (lisp or FP) and if the system worked you could add more topics. The length could be like steve yeggy blogposts or like the ibm ähh articals (http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/java/library/j-clojure- protocols/). On Mar 14, 11:12 

Re: DDJ for Clojure/Lisp/FP

2011-03-14 Thread Andreas Kostler
On 14/03/2011, at 8:00 PM, Saul Hazledine wrote: > On Mar 14, 3:41 am, Andreas Kostler > wrote: >> >> Maybe this group could finally get the ball rolling...Surely a collection of >> highly talented individuals could initiate a forum for >> technical exchange at the level Peter suggests (somewh

Re: DDJ for Clojure/Lisp/FP

2011-03-14 Thread Saul Hazledine
On Mar 14, 3:41 am, Andreas Kostler wrote: > > Maybe this group could finally get the ball rolling...Surely a collection of > highly talented individuals could initiate a forum for > technical exchange at the level Peter suggests (somewhere between a blog and > a book) - basically the level DDJ

Re: DDJ for Clojure/Lisp/FP

2011-03-13 Thread Andreas Kostler
> Well, it was announced two or three years ago, but has never actually been > produced, so I wouldn't get your hopes up :) > Maybe this group could finally get the ball rolling...Surely a collection of highly talented individuals could initiate a forum for technical exchange at the level Peter

Re: DDJ for Clojure/Lisp/FP

2011-03-13 Thread Mark Engelberg
On Sun, Mar 13, 2011 at 7:28 PM, Andreas Kostler < andreas.koestler.le...@gmail.com> wrote: > This certainly sounds/reads interesting. It is to be seen how much > Clojure/Lisp content there will be > and how many every-day problems it will address. How long hast this been > around? > > Well, it wa

Re: DDJ for Clojure/Lisp/FP

2011-03-13 Thread Andreas Kostler
On 14/03/2011, at 12:05 PM, Alan Dipert wrote: > Hi Andreas, > >> Is there something like Doctor Dobbs Journal for Clojure/Lisp or even >> functional programming related topics? > > To my knowledge, not yet. Peter Seibel's yet-to-be-published "Code > Quarterly" sounds similar to what you're lo

Re: DDJ for Clojure/Lisp/FP

2011-03-13 Thread Alan Dipert
Hi Andreas, > Is there something like Doctor Dobbs Journal for Clojure/Lisp or even > functional programming related topics? To my knowledge, not yet. Peter Seibel's yet-to-be-published "Code Quarterly" sounds similar to what you're looking for: http://www.codequarterly.com/ > If there isn't, i