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Clojure 1.1 - And beyond

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I'm still a Clojure newbie, but one thing I've discovered about programming as I study Clojure is that a lot of programming involves the processing lists.

Take Web dev: you have a list of parameters that a user sends to the server, you perform business logic on that list, you send the list of data to the database, and you return a list of data to the user.

Any technology that makes performing those tasks easier is a good thing.

Well, "LISP" is short for "LISt Processing" after all :D

Indeed. And I think that Clojure's (I mean, Rich's) simple approach of abstracting lists, vectors, hashes etc as sequences is even more to the point, more powerful. (Of course, it is not necessarily his invention: something like this can be seen in older languages, like Perl, Python, etc.)

Clojure programmers often work with logical lists called sequences. Arrays, maps, lists, sets, Java collections and many other types provide access to their elements as sequences.

A great presentation. If you're thinking about trying this here Clojure thing, take out your wallet and pick up chouser and fogus' Joy of Clojure from MEAP right now. It's the most complete of its kind by a long shot.

How does Joy of Clojure compare to Programming Clojure?

"Programming Clojure" teaches Clojure, "The Joy of Clojure" tells you how you should use Clojure.

"Programming Clojure" is a really basic book and a bit outdated by now. A good way to begin but not sufficient to become good at writing idiomatic code.

" It's the most complete of its kind by a long shot."

Is it even done? It looks like only 4 chapters have been written, which barely cover the basics.

Ok, but is that book dead sexy? :)

http://www.gigamonkeys.com/book/

This web presentiation solution is the best I've seen. Anyone know if a release exists?

It's cobbled together from numerous parts: JQuery, Showdown, pres.js, highlight.js (although this is not working properly at the moment). I will try to get all the license niceties in order and put it up on the Githubs ASAP.

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