Re: [ANN] [book] Mastering Clojure published!

2016-04-04 Thread Alan Thompson
I'm looking forward to reading it. The printed version is half-way here, and I already have the e-book! Alan On Sat, Apr 2, 2016 at 9:46 PM, Akhil Wali wrote: > I'm pleased to announce that Mastering Clojure has been published. > This book is a fast paced

Re: [ANN] [book] Mastering Clojure published!

2016-04-04 Thread Matching Socks
The publisher's blurb on Amazon says, You'll start off by learning the details of sequences, concurrency primitives, and macros. Packed with a lot of examples, you'll get a walkthrough on orchestrating concurrency and parallelism, which will help you understand Clojure reducers, and we'll walk

Re: [ANN] [book] Mastering Clojure published!

2016-04-03 Thread Timothy Baldridge
gvim, aside from the rather poor taste of critiquing a book's pricing in the second reply to the announcement of that book. Perhaps also consider that one book is named "Mastering", while the other is a introduction to web programming. I have not read either of these books, but shouldn't we prefer

Re: [ANN] [book] Mastering Clojure published!

2016-04-03 Thread gvim
On 03/04/2016 05:46, Akhil Wali wrote: I'm pleased to announce that Mastering Clojure has been published. This book is a fast paced exploration of the more advanced features of the Clojure language. It also demonstrates a handful of interesting libraries, such as core.async, pulsar, core.logic

Re: [ANN] [book] Mastering Clojure published!

2016-04-03 Thread Colin Yates
Congratulations! - I know how much effort goes into this sort of thing. I look forward to reading a copy at some point. On 3 April 2016 at 05:46, Akhil Wali wrote: > I'm pleased to announce that Mastering Clojure has been published. > This book is a fast paced

[ANN] [book] Mastering Clojure published!

2016-04-02 Thread Akhil Wali
I'm pleased to announce that Mastering Clojure has been published. This book is a fast paced exploration of the more advanced features of the Clojure language. It also demonstrates a handful of interesting libraries, such as core.async, pulsar, core.logic and cats.