Foreword to the Second Edition
In this second edition of The Joy of Clojure, Michael Fogus and Chris Houser present a cornucopia of programming concepts, including many of the topics from the programming languages course we taught together for many years. Fundamental programming languages concepts close to our hearts that appear in this book include higher-order functions, lexical scope, closures, tail recursion, mutual recursion, continuations and continuation-passing style, trampolining, lazy sequences, macros, and relational programming. Most important, Fogus and Houser teach you how to define your own little languages.
Alan J. Perlis, brilliant language designer and inaugural Turing Award recipient, famously wrote, “There will always be ...
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