In this episode I talk with Fogus, author of The Joy of Clojure and Functional JavaScript. We cover his history with functional languages, working with JavaScript in a functional style, and digging into the history of software development.

fogus.me

Joy of Clojure

Chris Houser

Clojure.core

Relevance (Now Cognitect)

Missing the interesting conversations as part of Clojure.core team

Core/async

Fogus’ previous functional language experience

What about Lisp appeals to Fogus

Progression of Imperative to Functional to Logic programming

Functional JavaScript

Douglas Crockford

Underscore

Jeremy Ashkenas

Ostrich purity

Lemonad

Bilby and Fantasy Land by Brian McKenna

Structuring and organizing functional programs

How to build your knowledge of the history of computing

Reading for the Rushed

Follow footnotes/bibliography/references

10 Technical Papers Every Programmer Should Read (At Least Twice)

The History of Programming Languages Volume 2

A Programming Language by Kenneth Iverson

APL

Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs (from Amazon.com)

Any book written before 1990

Production Rule Systems in Clojure

Infinite Jest

House of Leaves

A giant Thank You to David Belcher for the logo design.