I second faenvie's request for "applications of Clojure" books, especially on AI. AI is the reason I started looking at a Lisp in the first place. I'd also like to see Clojure become *the* language for statistics, though I understand that R statisticians aren't so fond of Lisps.
I just bought Practical Clojure and am enjoying it as well. After browsing through an alternative at Barnes and Noble, I was thoroughly confused about Clojure and did not think it a beautiful language. After that, I picked up Practical Clojure and immediately connected with it (and the language). Though it is described as "practical", you don't spare us the theory, and I love that. (A detail I really liked is that you save the ugliness that is Java till the end.) The flow is excellent and well-thought-out, and I'm glad you start by describing the Clojure philosophy and don't shirk explanations of its complexity under the hood. For me, this book (so far) feels like "The C Programming Language". Well done. On Sep 16, 8:00 pm, Stuart Sierra <the.stuart.sie...@gmail.com> wrote: > Thanks! Glad you liked the book. > -S > > On Sep 14, 8:37 am, faenvie <fanny.aen...@gmx.de> wrote: > > > > > i just emerged from a whirlwind read > > through 'practical clojure'. i like this book > > very much. > > > it's a very well structured, carefully written > > book. kind of a minimalistic approach but minimalistic > > in the positive sense clojure itself is. > > > so now 'students' have really good choices > > among 4 high quality introductions and can > > combine them. > > > for the future: some books about solving state of > > the art problems with clojure would be nice to come. > > something like peter norvigs book on AI programming. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your first post. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en
