The Joy of Clojure: Thinking the Clojure Way

About the Book

If you’ve seen how dozens of lines of Java or Ruby can dissolve into just a few lines of Clojure, you’ll know why the authors of this book call it a “joyful language.” Clojure is a dialect of Lisp that runs on the JVM. It combines the nice features of a scripting language with the powerful features of a production environment—features like persistent data structures and clean multithreading that you’ll need for industrial-strength application development.

The Joy of Clojure goes beyond just syntax to show you how to write fluent and idiomatic Clojure code. You’ll learn a functional approach to programming and will master Lisp techniques that make Clojure so elegant and efficient. The book gives you easy access to hard soft ware areas like concurrency, interoperability, and performance. And it shows you how great it can be to think about problems the Clojure way.

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What’s Inside

• The what and why of Clojure
• How to work with macros
• How to do elegant application design
• Functional programming idioms

Written for programmers coming to Clojure from another programming background—no prior experience with Clojure or Lisp is required.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Clojure philosophy
Chapter 2 Drinking from the Clojure firehose
Chapter 3 Dipping our toes in the pool
Chapter 4 On scalars
Chapter 5 Composite data types
Chapter 6 Being lazy and set in your ways
Chapter 7 Functional programming
Chapter 8 Macros
Chapter 9 Combining data and code
Chapter 10 Java.next
Chapter 11 Mutation
Chapter 12 Performance
Chapter 13 Clojure changes the way you think