This is the sad true: parsing is boring. And writing parser is even worst.

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Book review by Stefano Fago: This book introduce one of most interesting  language of new wave of functional programming. You will find a complete overview of clojure language focusing in functional paradigm that can be the real obstacle for a standard developer. The author try to follow you on learning different subject with a lot of examples but sometimes it need more reflection and time to master some arguments and a syntax that may seems obscure. The book is a good starting point to introduce you to a new way of programming but also to learn some particulars aspect of Java. To consider a complete but not easy reading. However a book to have!

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I like a lot of programming languages. I do not love them with the same intensity.

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Ops I did it again. Although I repeatedly said I didn't love emacs Lisp, I finally managed to learn it. So I want to share with you my tips, to help entering in the Emacs Lisp world in a fast, fun and easy way.

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Pandoc is an universal document converter to convert Markdown, Org-Mode, Html, Word documents from one markup format into another  After using different tools, (including GNU info and SGML). I find out pandoc vert handy.

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Today I took a light rail with my son, to bring him to school. That tram is 90 years old. It has been maintained for 90 years. Milan city sold some of them to San Francisco too.

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Sometimes I need a very very fast start on emacs. If you have the same need, put this in your init.el and live happy:

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