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Partial and named arguments in Clojure
I'm a Python programmer just learning Clojure. In Python I love how I can used named arguments in a call to functools.partial:
def pow(base, exponent):
return base ** exponent
exp = ...
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Why is my clojure shell result not like what works in python?
When working in the python repl I often need to edit multiline code.
So I use import os then os.system("notepad npad.py")
In clojure I first run (use '[clojure.java.shell :only [sh]])
Then I run ...
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How do I make a web server to make timed multiple choice tests?
I'd like to make a webapp that asks people multiple choice questions, and times how long they take to answer.
I'd like those who want to, to be able to make accounts, and to store the data for how ...
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Customizable mail server - what are my options? [closed]
I am interested to build a mail service that allows you to incorporate custom logic in the your mail server.
For example, user A can reply to [email protected] once and subsequent emails from ...
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3answers
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What is called a library that allows emulation of a browser for automating purposes?
I have an automating task in which I need to fill several forms in a site with data from word documents. For that I would need a library that emulates a browser and allows me to programatically enter ...
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What is the simplest way for Clojure and Python programs to share information?
I have two questions, one a subset of the other.
1) What is the best way to pass information between a Python and Clojure program. That question could also be extended to any jvm language like ...
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Interpreting a benchmark in C, Clojure, Python, Ruby, Scala and others [closed]
Disclaimer
I know that artificial benchmarks are evil. They can show results only for very specific narrow situation. I don't assume that one language is better than the other because of the some ...
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3answers
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Advice for technology for server side of game [closed]
I need to write server side for game ( communication between players, transporting data). Game is RTS. I need advice/opinion what to use to develop server side ? ( I am c++/java/python programmer but ...
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What would be the equivalent of this Python hash writting/accessing code on some lisp languages? [closed]
What would be the equivalent of this Python code:
class Player:
def __init__(self):
self.hp = 10
self.pos = [0,0,0]
self.items = []
def damage(self,dmg):
...
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4answers
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Can csv data be made lazy?
Using Python's csv module, is it possible to read an entire, large, csv file into a lazy list of lists?
I am asking this, because in Clojure there are csv parsing modules that will parse a large file ...
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2answers
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Math.pow in Java gives unexpected decimal precision
Please could someone help me with java floats. I have observed some inconsistency with java
for e.g
Math.pow(10.0,-2)==0.01
Math.pow(10.0,-3)=0.0010 (instead of 0.001)
Math.pow(10.0,-4)=1.0 E-4
...
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4answers
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Is mixing Clojure with Python a good idea?
I am working on a big project that involves a lot of web based and AI work. I am extremely comfortable with Python, though my only concern is with concurrent programming and scaling this project to ...
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1answer
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How to configure a Clojure library at runtime?
As a Clojure learning exercise, I am porting Bulbs (http://bulbflow.com), a graph-database library I wrote, from Python to Clojure.
One of the things I'm still somewhat fuzzy on is how to structure ...
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2answers
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Idiomatic Clojure version of Python's KeyError
How should this python be expressed
gl_enums = ... # map from name to values for opengl enums
# use with gl_enums["enum name"]
in clojure? This works, but is it right?
(def gl-enums ...) ; map ...
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What technology to learn additional to PHP, MySQL, JS, HTML, CSS [closed]
So i'm here and i pretty much got a full chain of languages for prette much any purpose:
PHP
HTML
Javascript
Java
CSS
SQL
And now i'm questioning what i should do next as an alternative or ...
