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http://briancarper.net/blog/clojure-from-a-ruby-perspective

Fogus' recent article "clojure.rb" speculates about why there seem to be so many Ruby users adopting Clojure.

As a Ruby user who adopted Clojure, I figured I'd write about my experiences.

Brian Carper

Hammertime (GitHub repo) is a new interactive error console for Ruby by Avdi Grimm, modelled after those found in the Squeak/Smalltalk and LISP environments.

Tim Bray shares his conclusions about Clojure.

To get your juices going: He claims "It’s the Best Lisp Ever"!

(And that tail call optimization is a red herring.)

I have been contemplating a Clojure department for awhile now, but heck, we may be too far behind the curve by now...

Over on Reddit.com today there's an interesting post that kicks off a discussion as to PHP might be a "parody of itself" by making the choice to include "goto" functionality in the upcoming PHP 5.3 release (you can find release candidates here).