[PDF] Web Development with Clojure Third Edition

What is Clojure programming language?

Clojure is a general-purpose programming language that utilizes the strengths of scripting language and rides on the efficient resource-rich multithreaded programming. It is a popular language among the data scientists.

What are some good books about programming in Scala and Clojure?

Functional Programming Patterns in Scala and Clojure (The Pragmatic Bookshelf) by Michael Bevilacqua-Linn On Lisp: Advanced Techniques for Common Lisp (Prentice Hall), by Paul Graham Hackers & Painters: Big Ideas from the Computer Age (O’Reilly), by Paul Graham The abstraction of night and day, as reified by Escher, abstractionist extraordinaire

Does Clojure have transitive dependencies?

Including Clojure with a tool like clj or Leiningen will automatically include these libraries as transitive dependencies. Clojure depends on Java and all Clojure code is compiled to Java 8 compatible bytecode (newer versions of Java can load this as well).

What is a predicate in Clojure?

A predicateis a function that returns either trueor false. In Clojure, it’s common to name predicates with a trailing question mark, for example, true?, false?, nil?, and zero? (true? expr) (false? expr) (nil? expr) (zero? expr) true?tests whether a value is exactly the truevalue, notwhether the value evaluates to truein a Boolean context.