Here's a collection of reading material:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1033503

Personally, I'd recommend Programming Clojure as a good place to
start.

Sean

On Mar 17, 8:28 am, Ben Armstrong <synerg...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I am new to clojure and functional programming, but not to programming
> in general, having been in the profession for a quarter of a century.  
> I'm trying to stretch myself a bit by learning clojure, but some of the
> threads here go beyond mere stretching to verge on head-exploding.  In
> my offline reading of this list this morning, I tried using the tools
> available to me at the time (dict client and a few dictionaries like
> foldoc) to make sense of words like:  http://foldoc.org/monad.  I
> survived to write this post, but only barely.
>
> What I would like to have is some sort of lexicon to at least help
> explain the terminology in a way that doesn't require three years of
> academic exposure to functional programming to read.  Is there such a
> reference?  Or should I just ignore threads like "Why do functions in
> the state monad only accept one value?" and be happy that at least
> somebody cares about this stuff, so that I don't have to?
>
> Ben

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