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The Joy of Clojure Paperback – Illustrated, 5 June 2014

by Michael Fogus (Author), Chris Houser (Author)

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DESCRIPTION Clojure is a dialect of Lisp that runs on both the JVM and anywhere that JavaScript runs. It combines the nice features of a scripting language with the powerful features of a production environment―features like persistent data structures and clean concurrency primitives that are needed for industrial-strength application development. The Joy of Clojure, Second Edition has been fully updated to cover the new and improved features of Clojure 1.5. It goes beyond the syntax, and shows how to write fluent, idiomatic Clojure code. Readers will learn to approach programming challenges from a functional perspective and master the Lisp techniques that make Clojure so efficient and elegant. It also tackles hard software areas like concurrency, interoperability, performance, and more. RETAIL SELLING POINTS Tells the "why" and "how" of Clojure Covers the new and improved Clojure 1.5 Teachers elegant application design AUDIENCE Written for programmers coming to Clojure from another programming background―no prior experience with Clojure or Lisp is required. ABOUT THE TECHNOLOGY Clojure is a powerful general purpose programming language that has powerful features supporting functional programming and multicore computation. It targets the Java Virtual Machine and modern JavaScript engines and provides easy access to host libraries, while providing an agile LISP-like environment.

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Language : English
Paperback : 375 pages
ISBN-10 : 1617291412
ISBN-13 : 978-1617291418

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AUTHOR BIO Michael Fogus is a programmer in the DC area specializing in artificial intelligence, compilation, code generation, and distributed simulation systems. He is also a contributor to the Clojure and ClojureScript programming languages and author of various Clojure-contrib libraries. Chris Houser is a software developer at LonoCloud. His lifelong passion for programming began when he was a child and drives him to continue learning and exploring new languages today. He's currently a primary contributor to Clojure and has implemented several features for the language.

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Tim Downey

The Joy of Clojure does a great job of laying the ...

5 May 2015 - Published on Amazon.com

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As someone with extensive experience in Java, but new to Clojure, The Joy of Clojure does a great job of laying the necessary foundation to start doing serious development in Clojure. As others have noted, you can learn the syntax of Clojure very quickly, but learning to develop in idiomatic Clojure is a much longer process. Fogus does a good job of explaining some fairly complicated concepts in a fashion that programmers with an object oriented background will be able to pick up.

I've definitely found myself having to reread sections here and there, but overall the pace does a good job of letting things sink in. You'll definitely do best if you fire up a REPL and play around while you read.

I've definitely seen enough of Clojure to want to use it for real projects. The trick is figuring out how to get the company and rest of the team comfortable enough to make the switch!

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Chris

their organization and ability to stay on topic are both horrible. You would already need to be quite knowledgeable ...

27 March 2015 - Published on Amazon.com

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I wouldn't classify this as a book which is "not for beginners", I would rather say that while the authors deeply knowledgeable and able to write clear and concise sentences, their organization and ability to stay on topic are both horrible. You would already need to be quite knowledgeable of lisps or (like me) widely versed in programming languages in general to follow along without being completely clueless as to what is being discussed. In the end, if the authors intended it to be a book for advanced Clojure programmers, then the first half of the book shouldn't be part of the material, as it is clearly trying to teach the language from scratch. If it is intended to be a book for any programmer to learn the language, then, as said, it is poorly structured and disjointed.

The book attempts to introduce the reader to the basic subjects and build on them, however the authors instead use the introductory chapters as a way to preview 90% of the content that they are going to present later in the book, wax philosophical about those subjects as they are doing so, and finally break off with a "but I guess we'll actually tell you what we're talking about in chapter 10". It would have made more sense to leave the topics of chapter 10 in chapter 10 and to have saved the idle musing for a conclusion to chapter 10 rather than an introduction, 8 or 9 chapters earlier.

I think that the book could easily be amended to become a useful work for programmers of any level, without signifanctly removing nor rewriting any material, but simply by moving the location of content around into something more linear.

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Chris

An iconic book on Clojure

5 August 2019 - Published on Amazon.com

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Lives up to it's iconic stature, is a great book with practical discussions on the basic language.

Pete

Five Stars

26 July 2016 - Published on Amazon.com

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Best book about Clojure

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Stephane

Wonderfully written, note the free ebook

18 June 2014 - Published on Amazon.com

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Wonderfully written -- one of these books that takes you aside and "talks" to you (as an adult -- this is no introduction to programming, and probably not a "first contact with a second language" either). The free ebook is convenient, I really hope this becomes standard (as opposed to what some other publishers do, forcing you to choose).

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