Ep 084: All Sorts

Functional Design in Clojure

Each week, we discuss a different topic about Clojure and functional programming.

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This week, the topic is: “sort and sort-by.” We lay out a list of ways to sort your data, ordered by their relative power.

Selected quotes:

• “Clojure core is a shared vocabulary that we all can use.”
• “I can’t sort things in my mind, I’ll just have the computer do it for me.”
• “There only needs to be one sort-by function, because of the flexibility of passing in the classifying function.”
• “We don’t need any framework-y mumbo-jumbo.”
• “We do interop, but only at the edges.”

Links:

• sort
• sort-by