Joy of Clojure
Michael Fogus
13 people recommended it in 9 threads, 2010–2020.
1 commenter pushed back on it — worth reading the threads.
What people on Hacker News said
The rest are all worth reading. I hesitated to put "The Joy of Clojure" on that list because it's too narrow, but it's one of the best programming books I've seen.
I haven't read that many coding textbooks not specific to a language but the Joy of Clojure probably slapped me with the most ideas I'd never seen before.
Riveting look at the language and functional programming - covers edge cases, gives lots of idiomatic examples, and goes deep into the really interesting parts.
I'm both glad I did, and that I have this book now that that's the no longer the case.
Where it comes up
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