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Reading

Introductions

• Clojure for Java Programmers Part 1 - Rich Hickey
• Expert to Expert: Rich Hickey and Brian Beckman - Inside Clojure

Clojure

• Clojure Style Guide
• Simple Made Easy
• The Value of Values with Rich Hickey
• Clojure Made Simple

Books

• Clojure For The Brave And True
• Elements Of Clojure - Zach Tellman

Transducers

• Transducers From The Ground Up: Part 1 Part 2 (excellent introduction, archived)

System Design

• Out Of The Tarpit
• Design, Composition, and Performance
• The Language of the System - Rich Hickey

Component

• Stuart Sierra - Components Just Enough Structure
• Anthony Marcar - Clojure At Scale @WalmartLabs

Functional Architecture

• A primer on functional architecture

Event Drivern Architecture

• Programming Without a Call Stack – Event-driven Architectures
• What do you mean by “Event-Driven”?

Concurrency

• Clojure Concurrency - Rich Hickey
• Clojure core.async
• Clojure Concurrency - Purely Functional
• Concurrency Is Not Parallelism

Types, Schema and Spec

• Maybe Not - Rich Hickey

Functional Programming

• Clojure Design Patterns
• Functional Design Patterns - Scott Wlaschin
• The Functional Programmer’s Toolkit - Scott Wlaschin

Databases

Datomic

• Rich Hickey on Datomic: Datalog, Databases, Persistent Data Structures
• Rich Hickey: Deconstructing the Database
• GOTO 2012 • Database as a Value • Rich Hickey
• The Impedance Mismatch is Our Fault

Lisp

• Beating The Averages - Paul Graham
• Making Crash Bandicoot – GOOL
• Lisping at JPL
• The Rise Of Worse Is Better

Testing

• Structure and Interpretation of Test Cases - Kevlin Henney

Practices

• ITT 2016 - Kevlin Henney - Seven Ineffective Coding Habits of Many Programmers
• Rich Hickey on becoming a better developer

Philosophy

• Are We There Yet - Rich Hickey
• Simple Made Easy - Rich Hickey
• The Value of Values with Rich Hickey
• Maybe Not - Rich Hickey
• Effective Programs - 10 Years of Clojure - Rich Hickey
• GOTO 2016 • Small Is Beautiful • Kevlin Henney
• GOTO 2018 • Old Is the New New • Kevlin Henney
• Software Art Thou: Kevlin Henney - What Do You Mean
• Agility != Speed - Kevlin Henney
• Four Languages from Forty Years Ago - Scott Wlaschin
• William Byrd on “The Most Beautiful Program Ever Written”
• Programming Should Eat Itself - Nada Amin
• “We Really Don’t Know How to Compute!” - Gerald Sussman (2011)
• “Propositions as Types” by Philip Wadler
• “The Mess We’re In” by Joe Armstrong
• “Systems that run forever self-heal and scale” by Joe Armstrong (2013)

Structure And Interpretation Of Computer Programs

MIT Video Lectures

• Lecture 1A: Overview and Introduction to Lisp

Course Website

• Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs

Book Remasters

• pdf version
• epub version
• html version

Academic Work

Armstrong Thesis (2003)

Armstrong Thesis

Making reliable distributed systems in the presence of sodware errors

CSP

Communicating Sequential Processes - Hoare 1978

Communicating Sequential Processes book - Hoare 2015

Recursive Functions Of Symbolic Expressions (McCarthy 1960)

Recursive Functions of Symbolic Expressions and Their Computation by Machine, Part I

Streams

Stream Fusion, to Completeness

Backtracking, Interleaving, and Terminating Monad Transformers

Kanren

µKanren: A Minimal Functional Core for Relational Programming

Relational Programming in miniKanren: Techniques, Applications, and Implementations

Humor

• Every Clojure Talk Ever - Alex Engelberg and Derek Slager
• Wat