Learn what many Java programmers have recently discovered: the Clojure language offers a practical alternative for solving demanding problems, using existing Java libraries, frameworks, and services. With this book, you get a solid grounding in Clojure fundamentals, based on the environments you already familiar with-whether you're working with data, concurrency, application interfaces, or other challenges. Learn how this JVM language can make your work simpler and help you be more productive. Clojure Programming demonstrates the language's flexibility and wide use by taking a Java project and converting it to Clojure. This in-depth look also shows Ruby and Python developers that Closure is just as expressive and sophisticated with one added advantage: all the resources of the JVM. * Learn how to switch to Clojure without losing your investment in the Java platform * Understand the advantages of Clojure as a dialect of the Lisp language * Discover how this language works in several problem domains * Apply it in different data environments, including big data solutions with Hadoop * Use Clojure as a scripting language, a driver for Swing/SWT interfaces, and other functions * Deploy large web applications across tens or hundreds of nodes with Clojure

作者介绍：

Chas Emerick是软件公司Snowtide informatics的创始人。自2008年以来，致力于Clojure语言本身以及一些开源项目的开发；长期在cemerick.com撰写Clojure、软件开发实践、创业精神，及其他主题的文章。

Brian Carpe r是一位心理学研究领域的专业程序员，用Clojure从事数据分析与web开发。他开发过一个把Clojure代码转化为CSS代码的编译器以及一个操作关系型数据库的类库，经常在briancarper.net上发表Clojure文章。

Christophe Grand是一个独立顾问，现居法国里昂。他主要从事Clojure培训与编码，参与了Clojure语言的开发，撰写过Enlive和 Moustache类库，也是Counterclockwise——Clojure IDE for Eclipse的贡献者，经常在clj-me.cgrand.net上发表有关Clojure的文章。

译者介绍：

徐明明，阿里巴巴资深软件开发工程师，热衷于研究开源技术及语言；目前网络浏览量最大的Clojure入门教程（ http://xumingming.sinaapp.com/302/clojure-functional-programming-for-the-jvm-clojure-tutorial/）即译自其手；参与Twitter开源实时计算框架Storm的开发，是该项目的核心贡献者(该项目的主要语言就是Clojure), 同时也翻译了该项目的很多文档，推进了该项目在中国的应用。