Ep 059: Lining It Up

Functional Design in Clojure

Each week, we discuss a different topic about Clojure and functional programming.

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This week, the topic is: "Sequences." We examine the sequence abstraction and then ponder how it helps and hinders our data transformation.

Selected quotes:

• "There is only one filter, map, and reduce. They need to be able to interpret all collections."
• "Primitives only take you so far."
• "The first thing is the first thing!"
• "The seq abstraction is foundational to Clojure core."
• "The into function pours a sequence back into a concrete data structure."