The Joy of Clojure - Michael Fogus, Chris Houser

Category: Computer, Science
Language: English
Keywords: Computer Science Programming Technology

Written by Michael Fogus, Chris Houser
Read by Mark Thomas
Format: MP3
Bitrate: 64 Kbps

The Joy of Clojure, Second Edition is a deep account of the Clojure language. Fully updated for Clojure 1.6, this edition goes beyond the syntax to show you how to write fluent Clojure code. You’ll learn functional and declarative approaches to programming and will master techniques that make Clojure elegant and efficient. The book shows you how to solve hard problems related to concurrency, interoperability, and performance, and how great it can be to think in the Clojure way.

The Clojure programming language is a dialect of Lisp that runs on the Java Virtual Machine and JavaScript runtimes. It is a functional programming language that offers great performance, expressive power, and stability by design. It gives you built-in concurrency and the predictable precision of immutable and persistent data structures. And it’s really, really fast. The instant you see long blocks of Java or Ruby dissolve into a few lines of Clojure, you’ll know why the authors of this book call it a “joyful language.” It’s no wonder that enterprises like Staples are betting their infrastructure on Clojure.

Appropriate for listeners with some experience using Clojure or common Lisp.

What’s inside:

Build web apps using ClojureScript
Master functional programming techniques
Simplify concurrency
Covers Clojure 1.6
Michael Fogus and Chris Houser are contributors to the Clojure and ClojureScript programming languages and the authors of various Clojure libraries and language features.