Can't help but be reminded of http://weblog.raganwald.com/2007/03/why-why-functional-progr...

Congrats on the job with Relevance, they seem like a great company :)

> Can't help but be reminded...

That's what I was shooting for. :-)

You appear to have overshot the target, this book looks better than anything I've written. Nice work!

Is there any meaningful way I can buy this book in the UK? I'm fine paying $45 for the book + eBook + MEAP, but I refuse on principle to pay $13 for international untracked surface shipping when Amazon will send it to me for free, tracked (but I can't seem to get the eBook through them).

EDIT: "Buy it" in the sense of getting the eBook now and the paper-version eventually.

Hopefully this means that a new PDF is being released soon. The book is great, but I've been disappointed with Manning's early access program. The last update was released in August 2010. Then we jump to March 2011, where we still don't have an update from the publisher.

Apparently I've been spoiled by the frequency of updates from PragProg.

Agreed. I bought the MEAP for "Joy of Clojure" in August 2010, and the MEAP for "Taming Text" a couple of months later (November) -- no updates for either book since the initial purchase. I was glad to get the early content, but I've lowered my expectations for future dealings with Manning.

Same here. No more Manning MEAPs for me. I'll wait for the finished book next time.

;;Last Update 08/27/2010

(apply-latest-update ("Manning PDF version of Joy of Clojure Book"))

Congrats to both of you. I'm still waiting on my hardcopy to read this from cover to cover. If the beta is any indicator, this is going to be a really compelling read.

Any idea when the MEAP orders should start shipping?

Yeah, I've been kinda-on-off reading the MEAP PDF, but can't wait to get a print copy to really dig into it.

In his post he says that "the paperback will be bound and available sometime in mid-March to book retailers," so I'd assume it will arrive within the next couple of weeks at the latest.

Having read the betas, I can't recommend this book strongly enough to people wanting to master Clojure. The authors really know their stuff.

This morning I was thinking about writing a tweet why the book is still not available in a dead-wood fashion, because I don't really like reading ebooks/PDFs (I preordered the book as pdf and print version through MEAP). But then it came to me that such a tweet will not speed up the process in any way. So I skipped it...

Nice to see this post now :)

I really wish they had picked another cover, though. I know that all these characters are just there to give the various books some sort of identity (like O'Reilly does with animals), but I don't really enjoy seeing a dirty homeless drunkard on top of my favorite Clojure book/ebook.

I'll probably figure out some way to alter the book to avoid being reminded of that cross-eyed Victorian chimney cleaner whenever I think of the joy of Clojure.

His nickname throughout the process of writing was Jack... as in "the Ripper". Maybe that'll help dispel the chimney sweep from your mind. ;-)

Perhaps, in a few years time, this book will be known as "the Hobo book".

Congrat's to @fogus and @chouser - it's a wonderful book.

So stoked to get this book.

I realize this comment isn't a novel or interesting insight, but I had to express just how amped I am for this to show up at my door.

There's nothing quite like the feel and smell of a new coding tome.

Hmm... I pre-ordered this book over a year ago, yet there's no apparent way to change the shipping address.