Wisdom and Wonder

Here are two papers that address the problem of tail calls and security on the JVM: A Tail-Recursive Semantics for Stack Inspections A Tail-Recursive Machine with Stack Inspection (via Jens via Debasish)

Clojure is a Lisp like language built especially to run on the JVM. After perusing the language rationale and features, it is pretty clear that anyone interested in multi-paradigm programming on the JVM would have a great time digging deeper in to Clojure!