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- Title
- The Joy of Clojure
- Author
- Michael Fogus
- Publisher
- Manning Publications
- Publication year
- 2014
- Condition
- Good
- Binding
- Paperback
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 1617291412
- ISBN 13
- 9781617291418
- Edition
- 2nd Edition
The Joy of Clojure, Second Edition is a deep look at the Clojure language. Fully updated for Clojure 1.6, this new edition goes beyond just syntax to show you the "why" of Clojure and how to write fluent Clojure code. You'll learn functional and declarative approaches to programming and will master the techniques that make Clojure so elegant and efficient.
About the Technology
The Clojure programming language is a dialect of Lisp that runs on the Java Virtual Machine and JavaScript runtimes. It is a functional programming language that offers great performance, expressive power, and stability by design. It gives you built-in concurrency and the predictable precision of immutable and persistent data structures. And it's really, really fast. The instant you see long blocks of Java or Ruby dissolve into a few lines of Clojure, you'll know why the authors of this book call it a "joyful language." It's no wonder that enterprises like Staples are betting their infrastructure on Clojure.
About the Book
The Joy of Clojure, Second Edition is a deep account of the Clojure language. Fully updated for Clojure 1.6, this new edition goes beyond the syntax to show you how to write fluent Clojure code. You'll learn functional and declarative approaches to programming and will master techniques that make Clojure elegant and efficient. The book shows you how to solve hard problems related to concurrency, interoperability, and performance, and how great it can be to think in the Clojure way.
Appropriate for readers with some experience using Clojure or common Lisp.
What's Inside
- Build web apps using ClojureScript
- Master functional programming techniques
- Simplify concurrency
- Covers Clojure 1.6
About the Authors
Michael Fogus and Chris Houser are contributors to the Clojure and ClojureScript programming languages and the authors of various Clojure libraries and language features.
Table of Contents
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PART 1 FOUNDATIONS
- Clojure philosophy
- Drinking from the Clojure fire hose
- Dipping your toes in the pool PART 2 DATA TYPES
- On scalars
- Collection types PART 3 FUNCTIONAL PROGRAMMING
- Being lazy and set in your ways
- Functional programming PART 4 LARGE-SCALE DESIGN
- Macros
- Combining data and code
- Mutation and concurrency
- Parallelism PART 5 HOST SYMBIOSIS
- Java.next
- Why ClojureScript? PART 6 TANGENTIAL CONSIDERATIONS
- Data-oriented programming
- Performance
- Thinking programs
- Clojure changes the way you think
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About the Author
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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