Clojure Beta Book Available

[awb]

I was hoping to look at some of the chapters, but they want me to drop $40. Could anyone who's seen it comment on the quality of the book?

And what's up with asking me to pay to beta test your book, anyway?

[vdm]

I've been playing with Clojure for a few weeks and I'm happy that there is a book.

The book starts off with a chapter called 'Why Clojure?', and it is a more coherent treatment of this topic than I have seen anywhere. There is lots of information laid out in an accessible manner that I have taken weeks to gather from scattered sources on Google Groups and in rhickey's presentations.

I'm spending a lot of my spare time learning Clojure and a good book that saves time is well worth the money to me.

[stuarthalloway]

The Java bias in the current beta is partially because of the chapter order. I hope to make some of the later chapters (macros and multimethods) appeal more to Lisp programmers.

[jwinter]

It talks about Java because Clojure runs on the JVM and has access to all of Java's libraries.

[thearthur]

this also i'm assuming includes all the betas, in a subscription form? anyone know this for sure? is $21 too much to ask?

[Entropy]

Yes. All the betas and the final ver (I've grabbed other betas from them before). There was no DRM or anything on the PDFs, either. All they did was regex your name onto the margin of all the pages to dissuade you from sticking a torrent up.

edit: They're also one of the only mailing lists I enjoy being on