Seven Concurrency Models in Seven Weeks

Chapter 4The Clojure Way—Separating Identity from State

A modern hybrid passenger car combines the strengths of an internal combustion engine with those of an electric motor. Depending on context, it sometimes runs on electric power only, sometimes on gasoline only, and sometimes both simultaneously. Clojure provides a similar hybrid of functional programming and mutable state—the “Clojure Way” leverages the strengths of both to provide a particularly powerful approach to concurrent programming.