Reddit reviews Programming Clojure

I've never read Joy of Closure, but the book that really helped me was Programming Clojure by Stuart Halloway. That book helped me get up and running with the basics of Clojure pretty quickly.

DiomedesTydeus gives excellent advice on how to introduce Clojure into the workplace and I'd wholeheartedly recommend his approach. It's close to the path I took when introducing Clojure into my current job, and I was able to have a good deal of success using many of the techniques he mentions.

One thing I'll add that may be of use to you is this: When I introduced Clojure to my workplace I back doored it by creating a ton of useful utilities that could run via an executable jar or script. When people asked for changes or information on how to add a particular feature, I went into full evangelism mode walking them through the REPL, etc. explaining how simple it was to test their ideas before writing a line of code. Within weeks the Stash repositories for my utilities had a large number of pull requests from my peers with lots of useful updates. Not long after that I was asked to do a presentation to our architectural review board on web development in Clojure. Since then our management has bought into Clojure now that they see how it allows us to complete work faster and knowledge transfer amongst new team members is quicker since the code is easier to understand. Now we're using it for small projects and with every success the resistance to the language across the firm drops.

I learnt from this book: Programming Clojure. At a time it looked too simplistic but perhaps it was because language itself is very simple (despite being very deep and powerful).