Functional Programming for the Object-Oriented Programmer: Exercise 1 & 2

The first section of this book introduces you to Clojure - mainly how the read evaluate and print processing works.

You're introduced to:

• Defining functions
• Built in functions such as nth
• Naming things such as functions and values
• Lists

The exercises are to define a function that returns the second element in a list and at least a couple of implementations of a function that returns the third element in the list. 

Here are my implementations of second:

	(def second (fn [list] ( nth list 1 ) ))
	(def secondMkTwo (fn [list] ( first (rest list) ) ))

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And here are my implementations of third:

	(def third (fn [list] ( first ( rest (rest list) ))))
	(def thirdMkTwo (fn [li] (second (rest list))))

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I've used the inbuilt functions nth, first, rest and done an implementation of third that uses one of my implementations of second.