Programming Clojure, 2nd Edition

Wrapping Up

Clojure unifies all kinds of collections under a single abstraction, the sequence. After more than a decade dominated by object-oriented programming, Clojure’s sequence library is the “Revenge of the Verbs.”

Clojure’s sequences are implemented using functional programming techniques: immutable data, recursive definition, and lazy realization. In the next chapter, you will see how to use these techniques directly, further expanding the power of Clojure.

Footnotes

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Steve Yegge’s “Execution in the Kingdom of Nouns” (http://tinyurl.com/the-kingdom-of-nouns) argues that object-oriented programming has pushed nouns into an unrealistically dominant position and that it is time for a change.

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“Variables” in the mathematical ...