Learn what many Java programmers have recently discovered: the Clojure language offers a practical alternative for solving demanding problems, using existing Java libraries, frameworks, and services. With this book, you get a solid grounding in Clojure fundamentals, based on the environments you already familiar with-whether you're working with data, concurrency, application interfaces, or other challenges. Learn how this JVM language can make your work simpler and help you be more productive. Clojure Programming demonstrates the language's flexibility and wide use by taking a Java project and converting it to Clojure. This in-depth look also shows Ruby and Python developers that Closure is just as expressive and sophisticated with one added advantage: all the resources of the JVM. * Learn how to switch to Clojure without losing your investment in the Java platform * Understand the advantages of Clojure as a dialect of the Lisp language * Discover how this language works in several problem domains * Apply it in different data environments, including big data solutions with Hadoop * Use Clojure as a scripting language, a driver for Swing/SWT interfaces, and other functions * Deploy large web applications across tens or hundreds of nodes with Clojure

作者介紹：

Chas Emerick是軟件公司Snowtide informatics的創始人。自2008年以來，緻力於Clojure語言本身以及一些開源項目的開發；長期在cemerick.com撰寫Clojure、軟件開發實踐、創業精神，及其他主題的文章。

Brian Carpe r是一位心理學研究領域的專業程序員，用Clojure從事數據分析與web開發。他開發過一個把Clojure代碼轉化為CSS代碼的編譯器以及一個操作關係型數據庫的類庫，經常在briancarper.net上發錶Clojure文章。

Christophe Grand是一個獨立顧問，現居法國裏昂。他主要從事Clojure培訓與編碼，參與瞭Clojure語言的開發，撰寫過Enlive和 Moustache類庫，也是Counterclockwise——Clojure IDE for Eclipse的貢獻者，經常在clj-me.cgrand.net上發錶有關Clojure的文章。

譯者介紹：

徐明明，阿裏巴巴資深軟件開發工程師，熱衷於研究開源技術及語言；目前網絡瀏覽量最大的Clojure入門教程（ http://xumingming.sinaapp.com/302/clojure-functional-programming-for-the-jvm-clojure-tutorial/）即譯自其手；參與Twitter開源實時計算框架Storm的開發，是該項目的核心貢獻者(該項目的主要語言就是Clojure), 同時也翻譯瞭該項目的很多文檔，推進瞭該項目在中國的應用。