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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.

About the conference

Code PaLOUsa is a conference designed to cover all aspects of software development regardless of technology stack. It has sessions revolving around Microsoft, Java, and other development platforms; along with session on higher levels that are platform agnostic. The conference schedule will feature presentations from well-known professionals in the software development community.

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Aug 09, 2011

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  • Nice intro

    by Donald Parish,

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    I've seen most Clojure presentations, and this is a very good introduction.

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