Clojure is two!

[Rich Hickey]

http://clojure.blogspot.com/2009/10/clojure-is-two.html

Thanks again to all!

Rich

[tmountain]

Wow, congrats! I have to say that for only being two, Clojure has made
a helluva stir as an up and comer. I think it's the most exciting
language in serious development right now, and I'm thrilled to be a
part of this community. Thanks to everyone for all the hard work!

-Travis

[Wilson MacGyver]

Congrats. I hadn't heard of clojure until the 1.0 release. So for me,
the amount of
progress and how it's taking off in the past few month has been amazing.

--
Omnem crede diem tibi diluxisse supremum.

[MarkSwanson]

Grats. Clojure is amazing.

[rzez...@gmail.com]

On Oct 16, 12:12 pm, Rich Hickey <richhic...@gmail.com> wrote:

"Stu Halloway's terrific book, and more books on the way"

Can anyone elaborate on this?

[Wilson MacGyver]

two more coming.

one is clojure in action, published by manning, written by Amit Rathore
the other is definitive guide to clojure by Luke VanderHart
http://www.apress.com/book/view/1430272317

[Jeff Heon]

Link for clojure in action green paper
http://www.manning.com/free/green_rathore.html

[Robert Stehwien]

On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 1:59 PM, Wilson MacGyver <wmac...@gmail.com> wrote:

two more coming.

one is clojure in action, published by manning, written by Amit Rathore
the other is definitive guide to clojure by Luke VanderHart
http://www.apress.com/book/view/1430272317

There are two manning books coming out I believe.  One by Amit and the other by, I don't know who.  I reviewed 2 clojure book proposals for manning and was told both were green lighted.  But I haven't heard any more than that.  Hoping to get on the beta for both.

I'll ping the manning representative.

--Robert 

[mbrodersen]

Congratulations everybody.

Clojure is the answer.

[Sean Devlin]

Thanks Rich! Clojure has solved all sorts of crazy problems at work
(i.e. saves money). It makes coding & problem solving fun!

On Oct 16, 12:12 pm, Rich Hickey <richhic...@gmail.com> wrote:

[Robert Stehwien]

two more coming.

one is clojure in action, published by manning, written by Amit Rathore
the other is definitive guide to clojure by Luke VanderHart
http://www.apress.com/book/view/1430272317

There are two manning books coming out I believe.  One by Amit and the other by, I don't know who.  I reviewed 2 clojure book proposals for manning and was told both were green lighted.  But I haven't heard any more than that.  Hoping to get on the beta for both.

I'll ping the manning representative.

I asked my contact at Manning about the two books and got the following response:

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Thanks for checking in! Both books are currently underway. Rathore is writing "Clojure in Action", and Chris Houser has officially joined Michael Fogus in writing "Idiomatic Clojure" (tentative title).

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The more the merrier I say!  Amazing for a language so young and maybe the most number of Lisp like books released by major publishers in such a short span of time.

Congratulations!

--Robert

[ngocdaothanh]

Because most materials on Clojure are only at introduction level, I
think a "Clojure Cookbook" which provides solutions to many many small
real world problems would definitely be a best seller.

For most programming languages, I only need 2 books: an introduction
one and a cookbook one.

[Timothy Pratley]

Congratulations Rich and co!

[Tayssir John Gabbour]

Hi,

Just chiming in a bit late -- just wanted to say that Clojure has
really been saving my butt these last three long days. My customer has
a codebase which is written in a language without any sort of fancy
REPL. I'm able to tap into that system and have Clojure draw out the
info, so I can manipulate it in real-time through the REPL.

What's been very helpful is clojure.zip and clojure.set; I needed to
correlate data which came from a DB and an XML file -- and it was
immediately obvious that clojure.set/join and clojure.set/rename could
do it in 4 sparse lines. (Because it was natural to work with
sequences of maps.)

(Later, I'll have to reflect on that a bit -- maybe I'm just a neuron
away from using something like Datalog.)


Happy (belated) birthday,
Tayssir


PS: Programming Clojure is a very engrossing read too; I could read it
at the gym... at least when I had my hands free.

[Tayssir John Gabbour]

On Oct 22, 5:05 pm, Tayssir John Gabbour <tayssir.j...@googlemail.com>
wrote:

> What's been very helpful is clojure.zip and clojure.set; I needed to
> correlate data which came from a DB and an XML file -- and it was
> immediately obvious that clojure.set/join and clojure.set/rename could
> do it in 4 sparse lines. (Because it was natural to work with
> sequences of maps.)

<cough> And had I actually read the docs, I'd have realized there was
no need for set/rename...

[Luc Prefontaine]

Félicitations Rich :)))

Clojure has now a toe in the biometric market.

A friend called me in August, he needed a quick integration software to generate data to feed
two slave factories to get id cards and passports printed and wrap a bunch of tools
to get consequent biometric data to be burned in chips in both documents.

Presently tests are being done and it looks good. I showed some Clojure stuff to people
out there and some where really interested in it.

Not two bad for a two years anniversary :)))

Clojure is definitively versatile...

Luc


On Tue, 2009-10-20 at 00:33 -0700, Timothy Pratley wrote:

Congratulations Rich and co!

Luc Préfontaine Armageddon was yesterday, today we have a real problem...

[Ross Thomas]

On Oct 19, 9:25 pm, ngocdaothanh <ngocdaoth...@gmail.com> wrote:
> For most programming languages, I only need 2 books: an introduction
> one and a cookbook one.

+1 for a Clojure cookbook. The same combo for Perl was very effective
for me.

-Ross