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description: Summary Clojure in Action is a hands-on tutorial for the working programmer who has written code in a language like Java or Ruby but has no prior experience with Lisp. It teaches Clojure from the basics to advanced topics using practical real-world application examples. Blow through the theory and dive into practical matters like unit-testing and environment set-up all the way through building a scalable web-application using domain-specific languages Hadoop HBase and RabbitMQ. About the TechnologyClojure is a modern Lisp for the JVM and it has the strengths you'd expect: first-class functions macros support for functional programming and a Lisp-like clean programming style. About this BookClojure in Action is a practical guide focused on applying Clojure to practical programming challenges. You'll start with a language tutorial written for readers who already know OOP. Then you'll dive into the use cases where Clojure really shines: state management safe concurrency and multicore programming first-class code generation and Java interop. In each chapter you'll first explore the unique characteristics of a problem area and then discover how to tackle them using Clojure. Along the way you'll explore practical matters like architecture unit testing and set-up as you build a scalable web application that includes custom DSLs Hadoop HBase and RabbitMQ. What's InsideA fast-paced Clojure tutorial Creating web services with Clojure Scaling through messaging Creating DSLs with Clojure's macro system Test-driven development with Clojure Distributed programming with Clojure and moreThis book assumes you're familiar with an OO language like Java C# or C but requires no background in Lisp or Clojure itself. Table of ContentsPART 1 GETTING STARTED Introduction to Clojure A whirlwind tour Building blocks of Clojure Polymorphism with multimethods Clojure and Java interop State and the concurrent world Evolving Clojure through macros PART 2 GETTING REAL Test-driven development and more Data storage with Clojure Clojure and the web Scaling through messaging Data processing with Clojure More on functional programming Protocols records and type More macros and DSLs
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title: Clojure In Action
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