The Joy of Clojure

Chris Houser,Michael Fogus

ISBN 10: 1617291412 / ISBN 13: 9781617291418

Published by Manning Publications, 2014

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Bibliographic Details

Title: The Joy of Clojure

Publisher: Manning Publications

Publication Date: 2014

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Good

Edition: 2nd Edition

About this title

Synopsis:

DESCRIPTION

 

Clojure is a dialect of Lisp that runs on both the JVM and anywhere that JavaScript runs. It combines the nice features of a scripting language with the powerful features of a production environment―features like persistent data structures and clean concurrency primitives that are needed for industrial-strength application development.

 

The Joy of Clojure, Second Edition has been fully updated to cover the new and improved features of Clojure 1.5. It goes beyond the syntax, and shows how to write fluent, idiomatic Clojure code. Readers will learn to approach programming challenges from a functional perspective and master the Lisp techniques that make Clojure so efficient and elegant. It also tackles hard software areas like concurrency, interoperability, performance, and more.

 

RETAIL SELLING POINTS

Tells the "why" and "how" of Clojure

Covers the new and improved Clojure 1.5

Teachers elegant application design

 

AUDIENCE

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

 

ABOUT THE TECHNOLOGY

Clojure is a powerful general purpose programming language that has powerful features supporting functional programming and multicore computation. It targets the Java Virtual Machine and modern JavaScript engines and provides easy access to host libraries, while providing an agile LISP-like environment.

About the Author:

AUTHOR BIO

 

Michael Fogus is a programmer in the DC area specializing in artificial intelligence, compilation, code generation, and distributed simulation systems. He is also a contributor to the Clojure and ClojureScript programming languages and author of various Clojure-contrib libraries.

Chris Houser is a software developer at LonoCloud. His lifelong passion for programming began when he was a child and drives him to continue learning and exploring new languages today. He's currently a primary contributor to Clojure and has implemented several features for the language.