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title: "Uncle Bob’s favorite programming language— but why 🤔"
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source: "https://blog.devgenius.io/uncle-bobs-favorite-programming-language-but-why-8fc3f85c77a8"
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author:
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- "[[Kirubakaran]]"
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published: 2024-09-19
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created: 2024-10-29
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description: "Robert C. Martin, also fondly known in the technology circle as “Uncle Bob,” is a highly influential figure in the software development world. He’s a renowned author, speaker, and consultant, best…"
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tags:
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- "clippings"
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---
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](https://kirubaspace.medium.com/?source=post_page---byline--8fc3f85c77a8--------------------------------)
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](https://blog.devgenius.io/?source=post_page---byline--8fc3f85c77a8--------------------------------)
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Robert C. Martin, also fondly known in the technology circle as “Uncle Bob,” is a highly influential figure in the software development world.
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Image from wikipedia
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He’s a renowned author, speaker, and consultant, best known for his teachings of clean code principles, agile methodologies, and software craftsmanship.
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> He’s the author of numerous influential books like “Clean Code” and “The Clean Coder,” and he was one of the original signatories of the Agile Manifesto.
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Do you want to know what his clean code advice ?
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Uncle Bob’s work has significantly improved modern software development practices, emphasizing the importance of code quality, maintainability, and professionalism among developers.
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Out of all the programming languages we have, Uncle Bob chooses “Clojure”. You want to find it why?
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> Clojure’s minimalist syntax and importance of functional programming allow to write elegant code that makes easier to read and understand.
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ex: Filtering and transforming data
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```
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(->> (range 10) ; Create a sequence of numbers from 0 to 9 (filter even?) ; Keep only the even numbers (map inc) ; Increment each number by 1 (reduce +)) ; Sum the resulting numbers
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> Clojure gives importance to functional programming & immutability
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ex: Updating a nested data structure
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```
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(def data {:user {:name "Alice" :age 30}})(assoc-in data [:user :age] 31) ; Returns a new map with the updated age
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> Clojure leverages Java ecosystem which helps to use many tools/libraries
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(import java.time.LocalDate)(LocalDate/now) ; Get the current date using Java's LocalDate class
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Clojure’s built-in concurrency support help to leverage the modern computing systems
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(defn square [x] (* x x))(pmap square (range 10)) ; Compute squares in parallel
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