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I agree, under what conceivable metric could the development of Clojure appear to be stalled?

Mark, you are correct, it does install packages globally. It's designed to complement the project-oriented approach of Leiningen and Maven, not replace it.

Wow, that's ridiculously well timed; my wife and I need to make a decision tomorrow about moving across the country to Portland!

I've enjoyed blogging about statistical programming (http://incanter-blog.org), it's been a great way to dig into subjects that interest me.

These slides are from a talk Mark Volkmann gave at the Strange Loop Conference, he has a more detailed article on Clojure's implementation of STM here: http://java.ociweb.com/mark/stm/article.html

The plots and chi-square tests are a single function each, it's the data preparation that takes up so much space. Alas, most statistical analyses involve a lot of preparatory steps, which are rarely shown in the final write-up.