5Functional Programming
So far, you’ve focused on becoming familiar with the tools that Clojure provides: immutable data structures, functions, abstractions, and so on. In this chapter, you’ll learn how to think about your programming tasks in a way that makes the best use of those tools. You’ll begin integrating your experience into a new functional programming mindset.
The core concepts you’ll learn include: what pure functions are and why they’re useful; how to work with immutable data structures and why they’re superior to their mutable cousins; how disentangling data and functions gives you more power and flexibility; and why it’s powerful ...
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