A lot of the buzz over the last year in programming languages has certainly been about Clojure. There’s a book about it that will be out soon, and as we’ve talked about over and over again, it’s got tons of fun features (and a lot of promise). However, it certainly seems to have a lot of quirks involved, so keep this in mind if you’re learning Clojure.
Clojure has a lot of buzz around it as of late, and I think it’s important to understand why. Thus, my argument for Clojure is as follows:
Clojure, Clojure, Clojure! All the time now I’m writing about this funny weird programming language with the interesting name! It’s a bit different than your run-of-the-mill language, both to it’s credit and against it, but shows promise thus far. So you bet that the minute the beta for Programming Clojure came out I picked it up. With that in mind, let’s see how it fares.
As previously promised, I picked up the beta edition of the upcoming Programming Clojure book and have been reading it with varying levels of excitement. For those of you too lazy to click on that link and read the selling points on Clojure (of which are very tantalizing for me), it can be summarized as the following: it runs fast and has access to all of Java’s libraries. Awesome.
I’m an avid fan of the Pragmatic Programmer series of books, which is incredibly obvious to anyone who regularly reads this blog (which at this point is really just me). So they happen to have a ton of books that involve getting done what you need to get done in the least amount of time while keeping good maintainability and such. This has been the main motivation for me to get a lot of books they put out. But I stumbled across a new book entering beta soon that looks positively intriguing: Programming Clojure.
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