Clojure Wednesday

Every second Wednesday of the month will be Prague Clojure Day.
2-3 short talks (20-30 minutes) and 2-3 beers afterwards.

Jakub Dundálek: Using Clojure and REPL for Web Scraping
Václav Synáček: CL(J) - Common Lisp from perspective of Clojurist

Using Clojure and REPL for Web Scrapping

In this talk we will see how to use Clojure to extract data from the web. Using REPL we can do fast iterations and transform the data into the format we need.

Jakub works with Clojure at Pitch, where he helps to build a presentation tool of the future. In his spare time he likes to work on open source projects with interest in parsers, shells and visualizations.

CL(J) - Common Lisp from perspective of Clojurist

Clojure is the first lisp-y language I have learned. Often I heard that Clojure is good because it is a lispy language and over time I got curious how much of this goodness really comes from the lisp heritage and how much is Clojure novelty. In this talk I would like go over the results of this search, presenting Common Lisp from Clojure point of view, showing what is the same, what is similar and what is different in these two lisps. For this talk I assume the audience knows general Clojure syntax but has no prior exposure to Common Lisp.

Václav Synáček is ex-bartender, IT consultant and hobby programmer who enjoys trying different languages and likes to challenge mainstream software engineering assumptions.

Locus Workspace is open for meetup attendees at 6:45pm. Please arrive on time as we want to start at 7pm and late door ringing disturbs the talk. Thank you