Name: Elements of Clojure
ISBN: 9780359360581

Zachary Tellman

This book tries to put words to what most experienced programmers already know. It provides a framework for making better design choices, and a vocabulary for teams to discuss the software they collaborate on.

Elements of Clojure

Michael Camilleri

The ambitions of this book are immense and at its best moments it reaches them and you see the contours of a way of a thinking about programming that feels truly enlightened. However, there are perhaps just as many times when it becomes bogged down in writing about what it's trying to do and fails to get into the nitty gritty of examples and explication that would really step you through its argument. 

Part of the problem is that you imagine Tellman started writing about the Clojure programming language before realising that what he really wanted to do was write about programming far more broadly. This leaves the book with an imbalance that affects the entire enterprise. Tellman's next book will apparently be focused on programming at a more generic level and I very much look forward to it: he's clearly got a lot to say.

Elements of Clojure

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