Wow! I had no idea about the daily specials mailing list. I have joined now 
though, so if I see a JOC special pop up I'll snatch it up. 

I don't have an e-reading platform that I like, so I have only been reading 
> bits and pieces of either edition. 


I find using my laptop with ibooks and a repl to be really helpful in, 
because I can copy and paste to test the code, and when I have questions I 
can meander and see what makes things break. 



On Friday, May 2, 2014 11:49:50 PM UTC+9, Mars0i wrote:
>
> Nice to know about the 7 models book.  I wasn't aware of it.  I can't give 
> you an opinion about JoC 2nd vs. 1st ed., though.  I haven't read either 
> thoroughly.  I only got the first edition when I bought the pre-release 2nd 
> edition package last fall.  I don't have an e-reading platform that I like, 
> so I have only been reading bits and pieces of either edition.  I'll read 
> it seriously when the paper edition comes (unless I buy a tablet first).
>
> (Are you on the Manning Publishing daily specials mailing list?  That's 
> how I got the pre-release package for 1/2 price, and I have seen that offer 
> more than once since I bought the package.  It may that at this point they 
> won't offer any further 1/2 price deals on JoC, but if they do, you could 
> buy it that way.)
>
> On Friday, May 2, 2014 1:07:36 AM UTC-5, gamma235 wrote:
>>
>> Thank you Mars0i!!
>>
>> I have a first edition copy of JOC and really like the way it just lays 
>> things out for you. I am hesitating to buy the 2nd edition, though, due to 
>> the hefty price-tag, though I am curious about logic programming and data. 
>> Would you say it is worth the money?
>>
>> I am now reading the 7 concurrency models in 7 weeks beta version 
>> (recommended by Alex Ott, above) and am finding it thoroughly enjoyable. It 
>> masquerades as language agnostic, but the first half is virtually a Clojure 
>> book in the way it introduces Java's concurrency solutions (or lack 
>> thereof), priming you for the subsequent chapters that go into Clojure's 
>> primitives, core.async, and even Clojurescript. There is a chapter on 
>> actors, using Elixir, and then the latter half gets more  general talking 
>> about how concurrency relates to big data and Hadoop, using Java. In 
>> general, I think all of the information is pertinent for a Clojure 
>> programmer who wants to become more well-rounded on the subject.
>>
>> J
>>
>> On Friday, May 2, 2014 1:07:00 PM UTC+9, Mars0i wrote:
>>>
>>> On Monday, April 28, 2014 9:42:06 AM UTC-5, gamma235 wrote:
>>>>
>>>> I heard that Joy of Clojure would be adding a lot in the 2nd edition, 
>>>> including a section on core.logic; is core.async also on that list? 
>>>>
>>>
>>> I bought the pre-release + final release *Joy of Clojure* 2nd ed. 
>>> package, so I have the v10 prerelease version.  This seems to be the final 
>>> version before the regular release.  I did a search through the v10 pdf, 
>>> and found no instances of "core.async", and the string "async" appeared 
>>> only in the word "asynchronous".  By contrast, there are indeed many 
>>> instances of "core.logic".
>>>
>>> The eBook version is supposed to come out in mid-May, and the print and 
>>> other electronic versions some time after that.  The last email that I got 
>>> says that the book "is now in production where it will get a thorough 
>>> polishing before publication."  So it sounds as if the authors and 
>>> publisher are only fixing typos and doing other small changes at this 
>>> point, and that core.async will not be discussed in the book.
>>>
>>

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