Web Development with Clojure, 3rd Edition

Appendix 1Clojure Primer

Since numerous books for learning Clojure are already available, we’ll keep this overview short. Even if you’re not familiar with Clojure, we hope you’ll find that most of the code in this book is easy to follow. Instead of looking at syntax in depth, we’d like to briefly go over the way Clojure programs are structured and some of the unique aspects of the language.

All the mainstream languages belong to the same family. Once you learn one of these languages, very little effort is involved in learning another. Generally, all you have to do is learn some syntax sugar and the useful functions in the standard library to become productive. You may find a new concept here and there, but most of your existing skills are ...