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Clojure: The Art of Abstraction

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Summary Alex Miller presents some of the abstractions that make Clojure a great language: Collections, Sequence and Higher Order Functions, Multimethods, Protocols, Atoms, Macros, and others.

Bio Alex Miller is a Senior Engineer with Revelytix, and he was technical lead at Terracotta, an engineer at BEA Systems, and Chief Architect at MetaMatrix. Alex enjoys tweeting as @puredanger and blogging at http://tech.puredanger.com. In St. Louis, Alex is the founder of the Lambda Lounge languages group, Clojure Lunch Club, and the Strange Loop developer conference.

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