So you want him to write something that Rich hasn't said on his website to market his book? :\ If not you're going to clarify a bit.
I wish Stuart would have open sourced the book, like Real World Haskell did. Would have done all kinds of good for the language. But each to his own and Stuart rocks for even writing the book. :D On Apr 18, 1:02 pm, George Jahad <andr...@blackbirdsystems.net> wrote: > Hey StuartH: > > I finally got around to buying your book yesterday. The thing that > finally sold me was Rich's email about how important your book was. > Without that, I wouldn't have considered paying for it, with so much > other clojure material available on the web. > > I think it would be a good idea for you to prominently display this > paragraph from Rich's forward on the book's web page: > > What is so thrilling about Stuarts book is the extent to which he gets > Clojure, because the language is targeted to professional developers > just like himself. He clearly has enough experience of the pain points > Clojure addresses, as well as an appreciation of its pragmatic > approach. > This book is an enthusiastic tour of the key features of Clojure, well > grounded in practical applications, with gentle introductions to what > might be new concepts. I hope it inspires you to write software in > Clojure > that you can look back at and say âNot only does this do the job, > but it does so in a robust and simple way, and writing it was fun too! > Rich Hickey > Creator of Clojure > > I'll start reading it in the next few days and let you know what I > think. > > George Jahad --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
