Preface
This book is about the programming language Clojure. Specifically, this book is about how to write Clojure code “The Clojure Way.” Even more specifically, this book is about how experienced, successful Clojure programmers write Clojure code, and how the language itself influences the way they create software.
You may be asking yourself, “Who are these guys, and why should I listen to them?” Rather than simply appealing to an authority that you know nothing about, allow us to take a few moments to explain how this book came about, who we are, and why we wrote this book in the first place.
Both of us discovered Clojure early on in its life. It’s safe to say that there were times when the Clojure IRC channel #clojure (on Freenode) contained ...
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