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Glenn Vanderburg - Cló: The Algorithms of TeX in Clojure

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Functional programmingGraphic design & typography

What it is

Glenn Vanderburg presents Cló, a Clojure library that reimplements TeX's core typesetting algorithms as composable functions. He shows what translating procedural, literate-programming code into functional form teaches.

Why Hacker News recommends it

HN recommends it for its insight into Knuth's TeX algorithms and what changes when they are rewritten functionally.

  • 1 people recommended it
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What HN commenters said

  1. “You might also like the "It's 1982 and I can't believe we're still..." part of the talk”

    Shows pains Knuth took avoiding subroutine calls in TeX.

    gavinpc, 2014-11 · Recommendation · in “Ramda – A practical functional library for Javascript”

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Topics: tex, clojure, functional programming, literate programming, line breaking

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