GigaMos

I would buy that book in a heartbeat.

you might want to have a look at Joker (https://joker-lang.org/)

It's a Clojure dialect written in Go. Currently, its mostly used as a linter but you can also do programming/scripting.

If I remember correctly, you showed some kindness towards Clojure (the language). May I ask, what made you reconsider?

Yes, Clojure can be quite different from other languages. For instance "loop" in Clojure is a bit different than in OO/imperative languages. Hence it will take some time and effort to learn these new concepts.

A good starting point are the following resources:

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Clojure Distilled: https://yogthos.github.io/ClojureDistilled.html

Clojure Koans: http://clojurekoans.com/

Excercises: http://www.4clojure.com/

Clojure from the Ground up: https://aphyr.com/posts/301-clojure-from-the-ground-up-welco...

Clojure MMOC: http://mooc.fi/courses/2014/clojure/

Book: Living Clojure / Clojure for the Brave and True)

Good luck and may the REPL be with you!

I think you're right, the book is not suitable for first time learners without any or much background in programming. This as lots of concepts are explained in passing. It quite frustrated me and I think Carin Meyers "Living Clojure" or Aphyr's "Clojure from the ground up" are in this respect a much better job. However, after having gained some experience with Clojure I thought the book was quite rewarding.

As of the Jokes, it seems this is a matter of taste. I quite liked the jokes.

Concerning the book "Land of Lisp" I wished Conrad Barski had used Clojure instead of Common Lisp.

I can confirm that. I did the same route. Afterwards I read the "Living Clojure" book and solved the Wonderland Katas (https://github.com/gigasquid/wonderland-clojure-katas)

Actually Penrose has the idea/argument from Lucas, which has been written in 1959 and published in 1961 : https://www.jstor.org/stable/3749270

This is amazing:

I have no idea how Sacha Baron Cohen’s Ali G character sneaked through my gate to ask Noam outrageous things like, "How many words does you know?" and "What is some of them?" I do remember that Noam came to me afterward looking dazed. "No more men in gold suits," he said, sighing.

ClojureScript is these days selfhosting. If you want to write and run small scripts you could give Planck a try (ClojureScript REPL). The startup time is much smaller.

http://blog.fikesfarm.com/posts/2015-08-22-planck-works.html

I think it was because they ran into problems with NW (esp. freezes on OSX), but I'm not entirely sure if this was the main reason for switching to Atom/Electron.

https://groups.google.com/d/msg/light-table-discussion/fgnl0...

AFAIK Light Table has been embraced by the Julia community: http://junolab.org/about/

because "LISP can learn a lesson from all the languages that borrowed ideas from LISP. It is nature's way."

from http://blog.samibadawi.com/2013/05/lisp-prolog-and-evolution...

Yes absolutely. But the question is why is this methodology still prevailed even though we are not constrained anymore by these limits?