In this episode I talk with Fogus, author of The Joy of Clojure and Functional JavaScript. We cover his history with functional languages, working with JavaScript in a functional style, and digging into the history of software development.
Our Guest, Fogus
Topics
Joy of Clojure
Chris Houser
Clojure.core
Relevance (Now Cognitect)
Missing the interesting conversations as part of Clojure.core team
Core/async
Fogus’ previous functional language experience
What about Lisp appeals to Fogus
Progression of Imperative to Functional to Logic programming
Functional JavaScript
Douglas Crockford
Underscore
Jeremy Ashkenas
Ostrich purity
Lemonad
Bilby and Fantasy Land by Brian McKenna
Structuring and organizing functional programs
How to build your knowledge of the history of computing
Reading for the Rushed
Follow footnotes/bibliography/references
10 Technical Papers Every Programmer Should Read (At Least Twice)
The History of Programming Languages Volume 2
A Programming Language by Kenneth Iverson
APL
Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs (from Amazon.com)
Any book written before 1990
Production Rule Systems in Clojure
Infinite Jest
House of Leaves
A giant Thank You to David Belcher for the logo design.