Clojure in Action
- Length: 432 pages
- Edition: 1
- Language: English
- Publisher: Manning Publications
- Publication Date: 2011-11-17
- ISBN-10: 1935182595
- ISBN-13: 9781935182597
- Sales Rank: #2575090 (See Top 100 Books)
Summary
Clojure in Action is a hands-on tutorial for the working programmer who has written code in a language like Java or Ruby, but has no prior experience with Lisp. It teaches Clojure from the basics to advanced topics using practical, real-world application examples. Blow through the theory and dive into practical matters like unit-testing and environment set-up, all the way through building a scalable web-application using domain-specific languages, Hadoop, HBase, and RabbitMQ.
About the Technology
Clojure is a modern Lisp for the JVM, and it has the strengths you’d expect: first-class functions, macros, support for functional programming, and a Lisp-like, clean programming style.
About this Book
Clojure in Action is a practical guide focused on applying Clojure to practical programming challenges. You’ll start with a language tutorial written for readers who already know OOP. Then, you’ll dive into the use cases where Clojure really shines: state management, safe concurrency and multicore programming, first-class code generation, and Java interop. In each chapter, you’ll first explore the unique characteristics of a problem area and then discover how to tackle them using Clojure. Along the way, you’ll explore practical matters like architecture, unit testing, and set-up as you build a scalable web application that includes custom DSLs, Hadoop, HBase, and RabbitMQ.
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What’s Inside
- A fast-paced Clojure tutorial
- Creating web services with Clojure
- Scaling through messaging
- Creating DSLs with Clojure’s macro system
- Test-driven development with Clojure
- Distributed programming with Clojure and more
This book assumes you’re familiar with an OO language like Java, C#, or C++, but requires no background in Lisp or Clojure itself.
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Table of Contents
PART 1 GETTING STARTED
- Introduction to Clojure
- A whirlwind tour
- Building blocks of Clojure
- Polymorphism with multimethods
- Clojure and Java interop
- State and the concurrent world
- Evolving Clojure through macros
PART 2 GETTING REAL
- Test-driven development and more
- Data storage with Clojure
- Clojure and the web
- Scaling through messaging
- Data processing with Clojure
- More on functional programming
- Protocols, records, and type
- More macros and DSLs