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Seven More Languages in Seven Weeks
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Seven More Languages in Seven Weeks

by Bruce Tate, Ian Dees, Frederic Daoud, Jack Moffitt
November 2014
Intermediate to advanced
320 pages
7h 8m
English
Pragmatic Bookshelf
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Day 1: Unified Theories of Code

Three days is all we have to get you using logic productively, but because core.logic is embedded in Clojure, the more familiar functional programming is always nearby to help.

On the first day we’ll learn about unification and the basic logic operations. We’ll build a database of facts and see how core.logic can reason about them. Finally we’ll take a peek at conditionals in logic.

Day 2 will add some pattern matching and other macro sugar to the previous day’s topics. We’ll see how to unify and work with maps as well.

Finally, on the last day we’ll wrap up by learning about finite domains. By then you’ll be ready for some more complex examples too.

We’ll move fast, but by the end you should be able to explore ...

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