You should try Clojure Programming (Halloway, Bedra). I felt enlightened after reading the first edition, the second edition is also very good!
http://pragprog.com/book/shcloj2/programming-clojure /Linus On Thursday, July 10, 2014, Stephen Feyrer <stephen.fey...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Sam, Lee. > > Thank you both. > > It would appear that I am faced with the old adage, "A little knowledge is > a dangerous thing". > > Again thank you, you ' ve been a great help. If I may impose upon you a > little further? Would either of you be able to recommend an introductory > book either for Clojure or FP that might fit well with Clojure, for the > mildly bewildered? I have a book Programming Clojure but it is written > with an assumption of prior knowledge/experience which I don't have. By > the way, Programming Clojure is a good book, I just don't think I fit > within the target audience. > > > On 10 July 2014 02:41, Lee Spector <lspec...@hampshire.edu > <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','lspec...@hampshire.edu');>> wrote: > >> >> On Jul 9, 2014, at 9:31 PM, Lee Spector <lspec...@hampshire.edu >> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','lspec...@hampshire.edu');>> wrote: >> > You could patch (not recommended!) this by adding "do" to the beginning >> of that list: >> >> Or -- I now see, instead of adding the "do" you could just remove the >> outermost parentheses after the parameter list. But as Sam and I said this >> is a bad way to go anyway -- you want to avoid the nested defs. >> >> -Lee >> >> -- >> 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 >> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','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 >> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','clojure%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com');> >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en >> --- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Clojure" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com >> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','clojure%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com');>. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > > -- > 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 > <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','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 > <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','clojure%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com');> > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Clojure" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','clojure%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com');>. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- 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 --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
