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Re:Guide to Programming Clojure For Beginners by rfrey on Wednesday June 29, 2011 @10:22AM (#2709552)
C'mon, be gentle - he said a big reason to write a new blogging platform was to learn the new language. That's legit - dunno how many file system browsers I have lurking around my archives for the same reason.
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Re:Guide to Programming Clojure For Beginners by sramsay on Wednesday June 29, 2011 @10:23AM (#2709560)
Yeah, just kidding. It struck me as funny, because it's exactly the kind of thing hackers do (including me -- and I'm also a big Lisp/Clojure nut).

As far as I can tell, this is more-or-less exactly how TAOCP was written.

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