Wednesday, 10 September 2014

Road to Clojure (PC and JC)

Clojure is a LISP dialect for the JVM. It also allows you to call Java code from LISP. Books on Clojure include:

Programming Clojure, by Stuart Halloway and Aaron Bedra, available from the Pragmatic Bookshelf
The Joy of Clojure, by Michael Fogus and Chris Houser (May 2014)

Knowing the standard Java APIs is useful when learning Clojure.

LISP stands for List Processing and was a favourite with AI researchers back in the day, having been invented by John McCarthy in 1958. He published his design in CACM in 1960.

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