Emerick Chas, Carper Brian, Grand Christophe. Clojure Programming

Published by O’Reilly Media, Inc., 1005 Gravenstein Highway North, Sebastopol, CA 95472.
April 2012: First Edition.
ISBN: 978-1-449-39470-7Clojure is a dynamically and strongly typed programming language hosted on the Java
Virtual Machine (JVM), now in its fifth year. It has seen enthusiastic adoption by pro-
grammers from a variety of backgrounds, working in essentially all problem domains.
Clojure offers a compelling mix of features and characteristics applicable to solving
modern programming challenges:
Functional programming foundations, including a suite of persistent data struc-
tures with performance characteristics approaching typical mutable data structures
A mature, efficient runtime environment, as provided by the host JVM
JVM/Java interoperability capabilities suited for a wide variety of architectural and
operational requirements
A set of mechanisms providing reliable concurrency and parallelism semantics
A Lisp pedigree, thereby providing remarkably flexible and powerful metaprog-
ramming facilities