Programming Throwdown, Episode 61, Closure with special guest Eric Norman. Take it away, Jason.

Hey, everyone.

If you're a longtime listener, you may remember we did an episode on LISP almost three years ago.

And we're coming back and we're covering in a lot of detail.

One of the things, one of the comments that we got, and we did the

LISP episode from a lot of people, was, hey, we want to learn more about LISP, and here's some more

details about LISP and things like that. This is before we really had a strong social network presence,

where the only way you could really communicate was by emailing us. And so we got a lot of email about list.

And so we're really happy.

Oh, go ahead, Patrick.

Yeah, we also briefly did mention closure on, we did like a collective episode of a bunch of JVM languages.

That's right.

And so we mentioned closure by name there.

And so we have Eric, Norman, to talk in much more detail about closure and kind of really

teach all of us a lot of really cool things about closure.

So Eric, kind of tell us about yourself and what do you do?

Hi, my name is Eric Norman.

My current tagline is I help people thrive with functional programming.

Nice.

I run a site called purely functional.tv where I teach people closure.

I want to expand it to other functional programming languages. And I basically

teach with video and exercises and other online things. Cool. What sort of inspired you to

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