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Functional Design: Principles, Patterns, and Practices
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Functional Design: Principles, Patterns, and Practices

by Robert C. Martin
October 2023
Intermediate to advanced
384 pages
9h 12m
English
Addison-Wesley Professional
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Afterword

In March 2022, I attended a friend’s birthday party where I overheard a couple of guys bantering about code. I introduced myself—I was in the market for some coding friends. Once we’d gotten the obvious exchanges of small talk out of the way, one of them dropped a bomb of a question on me.

He asked, “So, what’s your preferred stack?”

All the little bits in my brain frantically searched for an answer while I was simultaneously trying to understand what he was asking me, until finally I very unconfidently answered, “Clojure?”

With a step back and obvious surprise, he exclaimed, “Really?! Like full-stack?”

[Confetti drops in my brain—nailed it!]

In shock, he continued . . . “Front end and back end all in Clojure? I’ve never heard of that ...

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