Functional JavaScript: Closure

http://blog.fogus.me/2013/06/18/functional-javascript-closure/

by johndcook • 13 years ago

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tieTYT4• 13 years ago

As it says on the site, Fogus is "a core contributor to Clojure and ClojureScript". I wonder why he didn't just write a book on ClojureScript instead. Isn't ClojureScript already a way to write functional javascript?

fogus2• 13 years ago

I am writing a book on ClojureScript. http://joyofclojure.com/2nd

owenjones• 13 years ago

Ha!

Thanks for the new book fogus, love TJoC 1 and am eagerly awaiting the sequel.

zura• 13 years ago

Nice! I hope "Thinking code" and "Data-orientation" parts will get more attention (and space), versus ClojureScript and "weby" stuff, in case there will be a trade-off.

sivam• 13 years ago

Thank you for your contributions to Clojure, it's a great step forward among all the other procedural languages around.

shawnz• 13 years ago

Javascript is inherently functional on its own! I can't speak for the author, but I suspect he titled it this way because of how few javascript users there are that actually understand this fact.

tieTYT4• 13 years ago

I disagree with this statement. Arrays are mutable, it's easy to make global mutable state, for the longest time for loops required a mutating index, etc.

MatthewPhillips• 13 years ago

The Joy of Clojure is my favorite programming book, so this is a no brainer for me.

arielserafini• 13 years ago

I'm currently reading it and enjoying it a lot. Congrats!

tonetheman• 13 years ago

Congrats, I have been waiting a while for this!

matt__ring• 13 years ago

I'm a back end java guy who's getting more into JS. Bought. Thx, Fogus.

recuter• 13 years ago

$12 is cheap. I also made sure it went through your Amazon referral link fogus, thank you for writing it. :)

mark_l_watson• 13 years ago

I did the same thing. I have been waiting for this book. For a variety of reasons, I have been spending more time coding in Javascript and a little less in Clojure, and I hope this book helps make that a happier experience.

akurilin• 13 years ago

Thoroughly enjoying your book, thanks for writing it! It was also great to get a DRM-free copy through O'Reilly. Please write more :)

guiomie• 13 years ago

How does this book compare to Doug Crawfords book?

oneeyedpigeon• 13 years ago

The otherwise beautiful 'official site' has a very curious 'feature' right at the bottom: a glossary of choice words which, on click, pop open a window alert with their 'definition'. It gets even more bizarre: at least two of those items return "glossary entry for [xyz] not yet available".

fogus2• 13 years ago

And? Actually one definition, 'recursion' reloads the page and the other 'laziness' has no definition... yet.

derengel• 13 years ago

Thank you for creating this book!

olalonde• 13 years ago

The book is on sale here: http://shop.oreilly.com/category/deals/velocity-celebration.... (50% discount)

swah• 13 years ago

That seems to be the ebook.

d0m• 13 years ago

So far I've been disappointed by the "functional X" books.. Probably because I've read SICP and much of the "functional" books just repeat the same patterns over and over.. i.e. memoization, closures, map, reduce, etc. Still, I'm a sucker for these books and I'll gladly buy it. Hopefully I'll learn a thing or two.. and if I do so, I'll be more then happy to share the word about it! : )

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