Ten Big Ideas plus one

The key to understanding Clojure is ideas, not language constructs but the concepts that shape the language.

Each of these ideas is valuable by itself, not only in Clojure. Taken together, however, they beging to fill in the picture of why Clojure is changing the way many programmers think about software development.

• Extensible Data Notation
• Persistent Data Structures
• Sequences
• Transducers
• Specification
• Dynamic Development
• Async Programming
• Protocols
• ClojureScript
• Logic query / Logic Programming
• Atomic Succession Model

Stuart halloway discusses Clojure in 10 big ideas (eleven actually). Slides

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Presentation slides (pdf format)

• 2013 RuPy slides
• 2017 Chicago JUG slides