Mar 7, 2011

The Joy of Clojure has gone to print.1 The tentative timeline is as follows:

Chapters 1, Clojure Philosophy (the “why” of Clojure) and 9, Combining Data and Code (namespaces, multimethods, prototypes, reify, etc.), will be available as free content from Manning’s Joy page. The final EBook version will be released by early March. At the moment it looks like the book will be available in epub, mobi, and pdf formats. The source code will be released. The paperback will be bound and available sometime in mid-March to book retailers. The official website will get a facelift and new/additional content.

It’s has been an absolute pleasure2 working with Chouser3 and our army of Manning4 editors and proofreaders. I would also like to thank Christophe Grand for his excellent5 technical review. Additionally, I would like to thank Steve Yegge for writing the foreword and providing insightful feedback6 that I believe made our book all the stronger. Finally,7 words cannot properly express my deep respect and gratitude to Rich Hickey the creator of Clojure — philosopher-programmer. Without his vision it’s obvious that this book would not have existed, but furthermore my life would be much the poorer.8

The book has taken so much of my time this past year that I can scarcely fathom what to do next9. Whatever it will be,10 I hope I can learn11 even a fraction as much as I did writing Joy.

Hope you like the book.

Fogus signing out.

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thanks to Michael Harrison who was kind enough to read a draft of this post