Programming Clojure

eldavojohn writes "Programming Clojure by Stuart Halloway was very near to the perfect book for me. It covers many things common to many Lisp languages while highlighting in moderate detail the things that make Clojure unique and worthy of some attention. The book spends a large amount of time dealing with the intricacies of interfacing fluidly with Java (down to a package rewrite inside a large project). This fits me perfectly as a Java programmer, and I now feel ready to experiment with peppering functional language capabilities into an object oriented language. The book also strives to show how to simplify multithreading through functional programming, which is good because I find multithreading in Java a serious headache that few are good at. Programming Clojure, released in May 2009, is currently the only book out there devoted to Clojure, and the introduction is written by the language's creator, Rich Hickey, who says, 'What is so thrilling about Stuart's book is the extent to which he "gets" Clojure.' The book earns its place on the Pragmatic Bookshelf by guiding the user through rewriting a part of Ant into a new build tool called Lancet mdash; adding to the project what you just learned about Clojure at the end of each chapter." Keep reading for the rest of eldavojohn's review.pa href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fbooks.slashdot.org%2Fsto ry%2F10%2F05%2F17%2F1351259%2FProgramming-Clojure" target="_blank" title="Share on Facebook"img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/facebook_icon_large.png"/a a href="http://twitter.com/home?status=Programming+Clojure%3A+http%3A%2F%2Fbi t.ly%2FbenHjw" target="_blank" title="Share on Twitter"img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/twitter_icon_large.png"/a/ppa href="http://books.slashdot.org/story/10/05/17/1351259/Programming-Clojure?from=rss"Read more of this story/a at Slashdot./p pa href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/cvviRGVm5hyxXrm6Ncir8F8GgSA/0/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/cvviRGVm5hyxXrm6Ncir8F8GgSA/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/abr/ a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/cvviRGVm5hyxXrm6Ncir8F8GgSA/1/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/cvviRGVm5hyxXrm6Ncir8F8GgSA/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdotDevelopers/~4/GHH7BAUCJbU" height="1" width="1"/

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