JVM – Wisdom And Wonder

The problem of tail calls and security on the JVM

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)

JVM Language Summit

Here is a writeup on the 2008 JVM Language Summit.
(via LtU)

Clojure: A Lisp like language on the JVM

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!