Praise for the First Edition

The authors blaze through many of the classics of both functional programming and industry programming in a whirlwind tour of Clojure that feels at times more like a class-five tropical storm. You’ll learn fast!

From the Foreword by Steve Yegge, Google

The Joy of Clojure wants to make you a better programmer, not just a better Clojure programmer. I would absolutely recommend this to anyone I know who had an interest in Clojure and/or functional programming.

Rob Friesel Dealer.com Websystems

Teaches the Tao of Clojure and, oh boy, it’s such a joy! Simply unputdownable!

Baishampayan Ghose (BG) Cofounder & CTO, Qotd, Inc.

The Clojure community, present and future, will be grateful for this book.

Andrew Oswald Chariot Solutions

Discover the why not just the how of Clojure

Federico Tomassetti Politecnico di Torino

The Joy of Clojure really lives up to its name! Every page oozes with the excitement @fogus and @chrishouser have for the language and its community. This is exactly what makes this book such an enjoyable read, it’s hard not to get drawn into the beauty of Clojure when you have two convinced developers sharing their passion with you.

Amazon Reader M.K.

What Irma Rombauer did for cooking, Fogus and Houser have done for Clojure! By going beyond the basics, this book equips the reader to think like a native speaker in Clojure-land.

Phil Hagelberg Creator of the Leiningen build tool, Heroku

A fun exploration of functional programming and Lisp.

Matt Revelle Cofounder, Woven, Inc.