On Tuesday, January 8, 2013 6:52:58 PM UTC+1, bob zhang wrote:
> Hi List,
> * * I am interested in learning clojure these days(mainly for the JVM),
> I am a long-term functional programmer(one of the maintainers of the ocaml
> compiler, designing my language Fan (a variant of ocaml which has the
> similar macro mechanism as clojure), quite familiar with common lisp).
> So, for me, the main challenge is to know jvm better to understand
> clojure. Is there any book for professional functional programmers while no
> java background? or should I still learn java to understand clojure better?
> Thanks
>
Java is very much present in Clojure so knowing it definitely contributes
to knowing Clojure. You should probably inform yourself on at least these
topics:
- the sandbox that is the JVM;
- the semantics of most Java language features:
- exception handling mechanism;
- class/instance members;
- dynamic dispatch, method inheritance and overriding;
- what exactly are interfaces;
- primitive types and arrays;
- concurrency model (threads);
- important parts of the standard library:
- java.lang.Object;
- java.lang.String;
- Collections Framework;
- Reflection API;
- java.util.concurrent package;
- java.io package.
I'm afraid I don't know any resources intended for experienced FP
developers starting with Java. Something aimed at C/C++ developers might be
googlable, though.
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