wilkes

References?

This made me grumpy.

Chris Granger, of Light Table fame, has a few handy libraries. None of these are quite on par Meteor, but they are the basis for Light Table.

https://github.com/ibdknox/fetch - remoting

https://github.com/ibdknox/crate - html generation

https://github.com/ibdknox/jayq - jQuery wrapper

https://github.com/ibdknox/waltz - state machine

Checkout https://github.com/ibdknox/live-cljs for a cool example of using these libraries together.

I suggest watching the screencast. It has examples of some pretty complex queries including aggregating and group by.

Is hyperbole in the list?

Haskell:

http://learnyouahaskell.com/

http://book.realworldhaskell.org/read/

I miss R.A.W.

I've really enjoyed using PyParsing. O'Reilly has a ShortCut book on it that is worthwhile. http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596514235/

http://www.martinfowler.com/bliki/DomainSpecificLanguage.htm... distinguishes between Internal and External DSLs. Internal DSLs are a style of programming, usually non-idiomatic. External DSls require parsing.

Languages every programmer should at least have some understanding of:

Lisp - because it's lisp, duh Smalltalk - to actually understand OO Prolog - it requires a completely different thought process, for better or worse Haskell - for understanding useful type systems and functional programming C - because it as low-level as you should ever need

Just my 2 cents