What is your opinion on Clojure?

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deepblue picture deepblue · Jan 16, 2009 · Viewed 15.7k times · Source

What do you guys think about Clojure? I'm thinking of learning it next, currently using Erlang and in general happy with it except the records fiasco... Is Clojure as powerful as LISP?

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Marko picture Marko · Feb 18, 2009

Consider learning it. If for no other reason then because you can actually use it in a real project.

You : Can I use this small Java library called Clojure?
Boss: Why do you need it?
You : For some concurrency improvements.
Boss: Ok.

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