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Don't fear the paren! 8 reasons you should give...

Don't fear the paren! 8 reasons you should give Clojure a try

Giuseppe Capizzi

April 09, 2014
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  1. Uncle Bo “it might be the seed that starts the

    process towards the last programming language”
  2. “It is better to have 100 functions operate on one

    data structure than to have 10 functions operate on 10 data structures." Alan J. Perli Many functions defined on few primary data structures
  3. •embraces the jvm as a platform •fast! almost as fast

    as java •tons of high quality libraries •mature echosystem
  4. •interoperates with javascript •brings much of clojure goodness to the

    js world (incl. core.async!) •uses google closure optimizations