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The Joy of Clojure, Second Edition
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The Joy of Clojure, Second Edition

by Michael Fogus, Chris Houser
May 2014
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
520 pages
17h 23m
English
Manning Publications
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Chapter 1. Clojure philosophy

This chapter covers

  • The Clojure way
  • Why a(nother) Lisp?
  • Functional programming
  • Why Clojure isn’t especially object-oriented

Learning a new language generally requires significant investment of thought and effort, and it’s only fair that programmers expect each language they consider learning to justify that investment. Clojure was born out of creator Rich Hickey’s desire to avoid many of the complications, both inherent and incidental, of managing state using traditional object-oriented techniques. Thanks to a thoughtful design based in rigorous programming language research, coupled with a fervent look toward practicality, Clojure has blossomed into a programming language playing an undeniably important ...

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