Clojure

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Hosted Language on top of Java (JVM)

• ' ignore evaluating the next thing
• Runtime Polymorphism. same operaton for all type of collections
• commas in clojure are just whitespace
• Referential transparency
• Functions are values in clojure
• Multi-arity
• let bind arguments to operators and then return a value
• Loops are recursion in FP language, we dont do mutations
• Higher order functions, map, reduce, filter
• :: Fully qualified keyword
• Destructuring - pull oout values from a DS

Data structures

• vector vs lists
  • both are implemented as linked lists in java
  • difference is one is stack, other one is queue
• Sets
• Maps and Hash Functions

Function	operator namespace
get a value	get, get-in
add a kv	assoc, assoc-in
remove	dissoc

State Management

atom, ref, agent

atom

• reset! - replace the eitire ref
• deref - get the value
• swap! - state, function, return value

What can clojure do

• Scraping web pages
• Shell scripts
• Building websites
• Playing around with OpenGL
• Writing async webservers
• HTML Templating
• Running parallel tasks (fetching multiple URLs and process in parallel)
• Playing around with real time audio
• Simulations

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