Praise for the First Edition

“An easy-to-read book and a great way to get up to speed with Clojure.”

Craig Smith, Suncorp

“A broad but thorough overview of the current state of the art in this exciting new language.”

Tim Moore, Atlassian

“Down-to-earth and thorough, just what you need to get building real-world applications.”

Stuart Caborn, BNP Paribas

“I love the inclusion of testing and web topics!”

Chris Bailey, HotelTonight

“An insightful look at Clojure and its unique position in the JVM family of languages. A good read for anyone trying to ‘get’ Clojure.”

Jason Rogers, MSCI Inc.

“Don’t just learn Clojure—learn how to build things with it.”

Baishampayan Ghose (BG), Qotd, Inc.

“Explains functional programming with Java.”

Doug Warren, Java Web Services

“It shows what you can get mixing the power of Java libraries with a pragmatic functional language.”

Federico Tomassetti, Politecnico di Torino

“A very approachable text and a great introduction to Clojure and Lisp.”

Kevin Butler, HandyApp, LLC

“Brings together the features of Clojure and shows how they can be used cohesively to implement a number of engineering solutions. Each solution is stunningly simple and elegant. I highly recommend this book.”

A.B., Amazon reviewer