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The Joy of Clojure: Thinking the Clojure Way
by Chris Houser, Michael Fogus
This book will not make you a master of the Clojure API. It will not drone on about minute details of the language's JVM implementation. Its authors do a brilliant job, however, of detailing the power and personality of Clojure and its opinionated backing philosophy. They show exactly why Clojure, its ecosystem, and its community are continually thriving nowadays — what makes the language so distinctive among modern systems and even among other Lisps.
This book is by no means a quick read — I ended up spending just about all of my time with JoC in front of a computer with a Clojure REPL and clojuredocs.org open, testing and fiddling with the extremely interesting bits of code on every other page. If you are committed to moving forward with this language, though, this is an absolute must-read.
This book is by no means a quick read — I ended up spending just about all of my time with JoC in front of a computer with a Clojure REPL and clojuredocs.org open, testing and fiddling with the extremely interesting bits of code on every other page. If you are committed to moving forward with this language, though, this is an absolute must-read.