On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 12:10 AM, Aaron Feng<
aaron.feng@gmail.com> wrote:
> Stuart Sierra of LispNYC has agreed to come down to give a Clojure talk for
> Philly Lambda. As usual, the meeting will be held at Algorithmics. Please
> RSVP if you plan to attend.
> As for the topic, it will be super secret for now :) The only hint I can
> give right now is that it will not be the same presentation he gave last
> month to LispNYC.
> Below is a description of Clojure and Stuart Sierra:
> Clojure is a new Lisp dialect developed by Rich Hickey. Clojure takes
> lessons from the best of Common Lisp and Scheme, and adds new abstractions,
> a rich set of immutable data structures, software transactional memory, and
> tools for managing mutable state in a multithreaded environment. Clojure is
> compiled on-the-fly to Java bytecode, and offers direct and convenient
> access to any Java library.
>
> Stuart Sierra has contributed many modules to Clojure's standard library,
> including a testing framework, a code walker, and a macro-based template
> processor.
> Aaron