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<a href="https://blog.juliobiason.me"><h1>Julio Biason .Me 4.3</h1></a>
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<p class="lead">Old school dev living in a 2.0 dev world</p>
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<h1 class="post-title">Clojure for the Brave and True - Daniel Higginbotham</h1>
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2017-04-09
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<a href="https://blog.juliobiason.me/tags/books/">#books</a>
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<a href="https://blog.juliobiason.me/tags/daniel-higginbotham/">#daniel higginbotham</a>
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<a href="https://blog.juliobiason.me/tags/clojure/">#clojure</a>
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<a href="https://blog.juliobiason.me/tags/it/">#it</a>
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<a href="https://blog.juliobiason.me/tags/stars-3/">#stars:3</a>
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<a href="https://blog.juliobiason.me/tags/published-2015/">#published:2015</a>
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<p><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20873338-clojure-for-the-brave-and-true">GoodReads Summary</a>:
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As a Lisp-style functional programming language, Clojure lets you write robust
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and elegant code, and because it runs on the Java Virtual Machine, you can
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take advantage of the vast Java ecosystem. Clojure for the Brave and True
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offers a "dessert-first" approach: you'll start playing with real programs
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immediately, as you steadily acclimate to the abstract but powerful features
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of Lisp and functional programming. Inside you'll find an offbeat, practical
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guide to Clojure, filled with quirky sample programs that catch cheese thieves
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and track glittery vampires.</p>
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★★★☆☆
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<p>There must be something wrong with Lisp (and Lisp-like) people that when they
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write about their language, they show the code first, then explain what they
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wrote -- which is kinda weird, because you read code that you barely
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understand what it is doing at first, then they explain and you have to go
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back and read it again to finally "click" it. And, sometimes, they forget what
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code they just wrote and you're left with commands that you have no idea what
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they do.</p>
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<p>There is also a weird sense of humor, which I believe it could be fun if you
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watch whatever TV series the author uses as reference. For someone that
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doesn't follow and doesn't know what he's talking about, it's just... weird --
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and not fun at all. Fortunately, the "humor" tones down to the end, which
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makes more "pleasant" to read.</p>
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<p>While it covers a lot of ground in the book, some pieces really fall short in
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their examples. Threading and process fall short due the use of
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<tt>sleep</tt>, which is not something you'd normally write; the last
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appendix, about a tool called "Boot" tries to explain some concepts about
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tasks and middlewares with things that are not tasks and do not reflect the
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real world. Lacking this connection to real use of a tool just make things
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harder to udnerstand -- and even harder to see <em>where</em> you'd use it.</p>
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<p>It's not the worst book about a Lisp-like language I've read -- and heck, it
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does a good job <em>selling</em> the language, to the point I'm already thinking
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about writing something in it -- but damn if these problems don't appear in
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every single one of those.</p>
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