wooo, I need to look at Clojure now.... - Pierre Lindenbaum

a Lisp dialect, you say? http://xkcd.com/224/ ;-) - Simon Cockell

[Of topic] Lol. Saw "Manneken pis around the world" on that blog post. There's only one manneken pis, though... [/of topic] - Jan Aerts

Clojure is definitely very popular in some sectors (shows up on Hacker News all the time) - Deepak Singh

looking at Clojure, I think I'll wait until PyPy is done and supports concurrency http://codespeak.net/pypy... - Michael Kuhn

If you want pure and fast concurrency, Haskell seems to be the best bet. Clojure seems to be a great way to access all the existing Java technology while writing in something that feels much more contemporary. - Zaki Manian

An addendum. In order to have a snow ball's chance in hell of managing genomic datasets, algorithims are going to need to run asymmetric multi-core environments like GPUs and Cell. I've heard rumors that Google is working on asymmetric multi-core JVM. But otherwise young bioinfomaticians should be learning NVDIA/AMD's C frameworks or Haskell. - Zaki Manian

Zaki, I am not so sure. The accelerator space is still playing out. As long as you keep the programming models as they are, that will remain a specialized place. Plus, for most bioinformatics applications, you need scale out architectures, not scale up (anything that's not numerical heavy essentially) - Deepak Singh