<b>Summary</b><BR><BR><i>The Joy of Clojure, Second Edition</i> is a deep look at the Clojure language. Fully updated for Clojure 1.6, this new edition goes beyond just syntax to show you the "why" of Clojure and how to write fluent Clojure code. You''ll learn functional and declarative approaches to programming and will master the techniques that make Clojure so elegant and efficient.<BR><BR>Purchase of the print book includes a free eBook in PDF, Kindle, and ePub formats from Manning Publications.<BR><BR><b>About the Technology</b><BR><BR>The Clojure programming language is a dialect of Lisp that runs on the Java Virtual Machine and JavaScript runtimes. It is a functional programming language that offers great performance, expressive power, and stability by design. It gives you built-in concurrency and the predictable precision of immutable and persistent data structures. And it''s really, really fast. The instant you see long blocks of Java or Ruby dissolve into a few lines of Cloju