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Thanks for responding, man. That's my point though. There is no cons building block in this lisp. I don't think (1 2 . 3) can be represented in it so having the notation for it makes no sense.

Would dotted pair notation make sense for this lisp where lists are arrays, not linked cons cells?

Actually they only have the latest git snapshot available from the main page. It's not even RC2.

Simple and refined, guaranteed to blow your mind...

The tao of regular expressions link is broken in the first chapter. Does anyone have a link?

Why is init called twice? Once at the end of the js and then again in the html.

This book (The Elements of Computing Systems) made it click for me:

http://www1.idc.ac.il/tecs/

One of the most rewarding books I've ever read.

Nice. Thanks Jeremy.

Can someone explain the 'same name key:value shortcut' feature?

> This is the part where they are going to need a bunch of money to ramp up

What makes you say that? I've not seen anything about them needing money. From the FAQ:

Are you accepting pre-orders?

No. We are adequately funded, and don’t want to take your money until we have finished hardware.

It can run Quake III.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e_mDuJuvZjI

You do need a licence to watch 'live' programs via iPlayer:

http://iplayerhelp.external.bbc.co.uk/help/playing_tv_progs/...

Steve Pavlina lived on a polyphasic sleep schedule for several months, fascinating reading:

http://www.stevepavlina.com/blog/2005/10/polyphasic-sleep/

The Klingon Dictionary is very good at explaining grammatical concepts. It made me interested in how language worked. After reading it I was able to understand a French grammar book and go from getting an E in my French GCSE mock exam to a B in the final a couple of months later. I went on to get a degree in French (which I never used but that's beside the point).

In the video he says it's svg I think.

That's a list of things he said he gave away, not necessarily what he was eating.

That isn't a catch-22.

The chunking behaviour is transparent unless you have a side-effect in your sequence function, which isn't sensible anyway. The chunked behaviour performs significantly better for the majority of cases which is why it's on by default, I believe.

Rich (creator of Clojure) addressed concerns similar to yours in this reddit discussion:

http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/afyav/clojure_1...

He also discusses chunked sequences in a video here (near the bottom of the list, the sound is pretty bad):

http://tomfaulhaber.blip.tv/

or read it here: http://github.com/richhickey/clojure/blob/68aa96d832703f98f8...

There's a bit of a summary here:

http://www.infoq.com/news/2009/12/clojure-11-rc1-transients

I don't understand why qooxdoo http://qooxdoo.org/ doesn't get more attention. It's not as pretty as cappuccino, sure, but it seems a very nice set of tools.

Your Rhino example isn't creating a closure, is it?

Also Hardcore Zen http://www.amazon.com/Hardcore-Zen-Monster-Movies-Reality/dp... and Brad Warner's blog http://hardcorezen.blogspot.com/

Isn't part of the reason for targeting the JVM the ton of libraries you get for free?

Coming Tuesday apparently http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7971673.stm

Brad Warner is fantastic.

Check out his blog: http://www.hardcorezen.blogspot.com/

And his articles at Suicide Girls: http://suicidegirls.com/members/Brad_Warner/news/ (the articles are ok but the site itself is probably nsfw)

Hardcore Zen is my favourite book.