The History of Programming Languages conference series produces accurate historical records and descriptions of programming language design, development, and philosophy. It is infrequently held: the first three were in 1978, 1993, and 2007.
2020 is the time for HOPL-IV, and I’m very excited and honored to have a paper on Clojure be accepted. I want to thank Guy Steele and Richard Gabriel, co-chairs of HOPL IV, as well as the reviewers and shepherds for their support and guidance. Clojure is not the product of traditional research and (as may be evident) writing a paper for this setting was a different and challenging exercise. I hope the paper provides some insight into why Clojure is the way it is and the process and people behind its creation and development.
Rich
From HOPL IV in June 2021:
