Sayth, First, imagine my surprise when I saw just the title of your post show up in a search...
Second, thanks for the kind words about the books that I actually have written (so far). For what it's worth, I have thought about doing a clojure book, but so far it is only in the back of the napkin stage. At this point I don't know how I would approach clojure but I do think that the classic design patterns are a good jumping off point for any new language discussion, mostly because we are all familiar with them to one degree or another. Rather than simply saying 'Clojure is powerful', you can say, 'Hey, you know that problem that the XYZ pattern solves? Here's the 2 lines of clojure that does the same thing.' That's more or less the approach that I took in Design Patterns In Ruby - with Ruby, obviously. Critically, the clojure (or Ruby for that matter) approach may be very different than the original 1990's solution that you will find in the GoF: This is a good thing since it means that we have actually made some progress. Finally, one of the best things about following Clojure from its very early days is watching the idioms develop and spread through out the community. As I tried to say in Eloquent Ruby, the community behind a language and the techniques that it develops are as much a part of the language as the syntax. Russ On Jun 29, 11:09 pm, flebber <flebber.c...@gmail.com> wrote: > Just wanted to put a shout out to Russ Olsen to see what would be > needed to get a Russ Olsen book on clojure to happen. I am reading > design principles in Ruby and its a great read, I feel I am learning > much moe than just Ruby which is why I am reading it. > > I woould absolutely love to read how Russ would apply these design > principles to Clojure a more functional language. His books are all 5 > star reads(amazon ratings) and would greatly enjoy being able to read > a Russ Olsen clojure book. > > Is there any way we could help this to happen? Is anyone else > interested in such a book? > > Sayth -- 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
