Re: Clojure Lunch Club

This sounds like a great idea. While we do not currently use Clojure, it is definitely something we are interested in. Unfortunately, getting out to the suburbs, especially mid-day, is close to impossible for me and certainly for this upcoming Monday, I could not make it. However, if you are taking suggestions on topics[1], I would be *highly motivated* to get out there if the discussions focused on:

Since I'm in the burbs it's convenient for me - we could organize something for downtown - but as you have trouble getting out here in a reasonable time, I have trouble getting down there in a reasonable time...we'll work something out - perhaps we'll do one in september and I'll just work from Philly for a day....

1. Clojure and concurrency in depth (i.e. more that just, "immutable data makes for safer/easier concurrent programs")
2. Incanter (i.e. "Incanter for SciPy users" or "Incanter for MATLAB users" type of discussion)
3. Clojure on "deeply embedded systems" (i.e. no operating system, JVM right on the silicon running Clojure)

I dont' know that I can talk to all of these, but I'd love to hear discussion about them as well. I know from the mailing list that some people have clojure running (or are close to having it running) on android. Not sure about other embedded systems though. I've used incanter once, but would love to learn more about it...same goes for the concurrency features.

I personally have found that the immutability, by default / encouraged, has made for a lot less issues and worries about code that I write in Clojure...be a great discussion topic.

I'm sure there are other topics that I would be interested in, but, in the short-term, getting more insight into the above three from some real-world Clojure users could definitely kick me in the butt hard enough to get out to the burbs and tolerate some "stalwart lispers waxing pathetic about how superior their s-exprs are over club sandwiches." ;-)

BTW, thanks for being a driving force in getting the Philly Tech community together (on various fronts) ... its much appreciated.