Who Is This Book For?
This book is for people with some programming experience—perhaps in Java or JavaScript or Ruby or Python—who want to learn Clojure. Notice I didn’t say learn to program in Clojure. Certainly by the time you get to Chapter 21 you will be able to write functions and map vectors and quote lists and do all the other things that come with being able to sling Clojure code. But behind every programming language lies a vision: a vision of how programs should be built. The vision behind Clojure is of a radically simple language framework holding together a sophisticated collection of programming features. Thus learning Clojure—really understanding the language—involves much more than just working out where the parentheses and quotes ...
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