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Great classic piece on what's wrong with Java's overdone dependence on objects and marginalization of functions.

"Clojure's data structures modified for use outside of Clojure"

During initialization of a shared object, the object must be accessible only to the thread constructing it. However, the object can be published safely (that is, made visible to other threads) once its initialization is complete.

Asynchronous HTTP calls in Java via @cowtowncoder

mechanical