About This Book
Why learn Clojure?
The only difference between Shakespeare and you was the size of his idiom list—not the size of his vocabulary.
Alan Perlis
When this book was conceived, our first instinct was to create a comprehensive comparison between Clojure and its host language, Java. After further reflection, we reached the conclusion that such an approach would be disingenuous at best, and disastrous at worst. Granted, some points of comparison can’t be avoided, but Java is very different from Clojure and to try and distort one to explain the other would respect neither. Therefore, we decided that a better approach would be to focus on “The Clojure Way” of writing code.
When we become familiar with a programming language, the idioms ...
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