Clojure in Action

Description

DESCRIPTION

Clojure is a new version of Lisp that runs on the Java Virtual Machine.

It's a functional language, which means that it's ideal for the growing

need for concurrent programming and for specialized tasks like

creating domain specific languages.

Clojure in Action is a hands-on tutorial for the working programmer

who has written code in a language like Java or Ruby, but has no prior

experience with Lisp. It teaches Clojure from the basics to advanced

topics using practical, real-world application examples. Readers will

move quickly through the theory and dive into practical matters like

unit-testing, environment set up, and all the way through building a

scalable web-application using domain-specific languages, Hadoop,

HBase, and RabbitMQ.

KEY POINTS

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• A complete tutorial, from basics to applied techniques

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• Covers creation of Domain-Specific Languages

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• Contains numerous practical examples

CONTENTS:

Table of Contents

PART 1 GETTING STARTED

Introduction to Clojure

A whirlwind tour

Building blocks of Clojure

Polymorphism with multimethods

Clojure and Java interop

State and the concurrent world

Evolving Clojure through macros

PART 2 GETTING REAL

Test-driven development and more

Data storage with Clojure

Clojure and the web

Scaling through messaging

Data processing with Clojure

More on functional programming

Protocols, records, and type

More macros and DSLs