Acknowledgments

Many people have contributed to what is good in this book. The problems and errors that remain are mine alone.

Thanks to my co-workers at Relevance for creating an atmosphere in which good ideas can grow and thrive. Clojure helps answer questions that working at Relevance has taught me to ask.

Thanks to Jay Zimmerman and all the speakers and attendees on the No Fluff, Just Stuff conference tour. I have sharpened my ideas about Clojure in conversations with you all over the United States— sometimes in the formal sessions but equally often in the hotel bar.

Thanks to the kind folks on the Clojure mailing list1 for all their help and encouragement. Tom Ayerst, Meikel Brandmeyer, Bill Clementson, Brian Doyle, Mark Engelberg, Graham Fawcett, Steve Gilardi, Christophe Grand, Christian Vest Hansen, Rich Hickey, Mark Hoemmen, Shawn Hoover, Chris Houser, Parth Malwankar, J. McConnell, Achim Passen, Timothy Pratley, Randall Schulz, Stuart Sierra, Paul Stadig, Mark Volkmann, and many others helped with specific questions I had along the way.

Thanks to everyone at the Pragmatic Bookshelf. Thanks especially to my editor, Susannah Pfalzer, for good advice delivered on a very aggressive schedule. Thanks to Dave Thomas and Andy Hunt for creating a fun platform for writing technical books and for betting on the passions of their authors.

Thanks to all the people who posted suggestions on the book’s errata page.2 Special thanks to David Sletten for dozens of detailed, wideranging suggestions.

1.http://groups.google.com/group/clojure

2.http://www.pragprog.com/titles/shcloj/errata

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Thanks to my many technical reviewers for all your comments. Craig Andera, Paul Barry, Aaron Bedra, Ola Bini, David Bock, Aaron Brooks, Tim Ewald, Andrey Fedorov, Steve Gilardi, Rich Hickey, Tom Hicks, Chris Houser, Scott Jaderholm, Scott Leberknight, Tim Riddell, Eric Rochester, Nate Schutta, Stuart Sierra, Brian Sletten, Paul Stadig, Travis Swicegood, Jeremy Sydik, and Joe Winter contributed numerous helpful suggestions.

Thanks to Rich Hickey for creating the excellent Clojure language and fostering a community around it.

Finally, thanks to my wife, Joey, and my daughters, Hattie, Harper, and Mabel Faire. You all make the sun rise.

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