Clojure for the Brave and True

Foreword As you read this hilarious book, you will at some point experience a very serious moment. It is the moment you

Acknowledgments So many people helped me birth this weird baby, and I am humbled and grateful for all their support. Fir

Deep in your innermost being, you’ve always known you were destined to learn Clojure. Every time you held your keyboard

Chapter 1 Building, Running, and the REPL In this chapter, you’ll invest a small amount of time up front to get familiar

Chapter 2 How to Use Emacs, an Excellent Clojure Editor On your journey to Clojure mastery, your editor will be your clo

Chapter 3 Do Things: A Clojure Crash Course It’s time to learn how to actually do things with Clojure! Hot damn! Althoug

Chapter 4 Core Functions in Depth If you’re a huge fan of the angsty, teenager-centric, quasi–soap opera The Vampire Dia

Chapter 5 Functional Programming So far, you’ve focused on becoming familiar with the tools that Clojure provides: immut

Chapter 6 Organizing Your Project: A Librarian’s Tale Within each of us lives a librarian named Melvil, a fantastical cr

Chapter 7 Clojure Alchemy: Reading, Evaluation, and Macros The philosopher’s stone, along with the elixir of life and Vi

Chapter 8 Writing Macros When I was 18, I got a job as a night auditor at a hotel in Santa Fe, New Mexico, working four

Chapter 9 The Sacred Art of Concurrent and Parallel Programming If I were the lord of a manor and you were my heir, I wo

Chapter 10 The Three Concurrency Goblins are all spawned from the same pit of evil: shared access to mutable state. You

Chapter 11 Mastering Concurrent Processes with core.async One day, while you are walking down the street, you will be su

Chapter 12 Working with the JVM There comes a day in every Clojurist’s life when she must venture forth from the sanctua

Chapter 13 Take a minute to contemplate how great it is to be one of Mother Nature’s top-of-the-line products: a human.

Appendix A Building and Developing with Leiningen Writing software in any language involves generating artifacts, which

Appendix B Boot, the Fancy Clojure Build Framework Boot is an alternative to Leiningen that provides the same functional

Farewell! As Semisonic’s hit ’90s song “Closing Time” teaches us, every new beginning comes from some other beginning’s