Clojure (pronounced like closure) is a modern dialect of the Lisp programming language. It is a general-purpose language supporting interactive development that encourages a functional programming style which enables simplified multithreaded programming. Clojure runs on the Java Virtual Machine. Clojure honors the code-as-data philosophy and has a sophisticated Lisp macro system.
Rich Hickey developed Clojure because he wanted a modern Lisp for f...
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Clojure (pronounced like closure) is a modern dialect of the Lisp programming language. It is a general-purpose language supporting interactive development that encourages a functional programming style which enables simplified multithreaded programming. Clojure runs on the Java Virtual Machine. Clojure honors the code-as-data philosophy and has a sophisticated Lisp macro system.
Rich Hickey developed Clojure because he wanted a modern Lisp for functional programming, symbiotic with an established platform, and designed for concurrency.
Like any other Lisp, Clojure's syntax is built on S-expressions that are first parsed into data structures by a reader before being compiled. Clojure's reader supports literal syntax for maps, sets and vectors in addition to lists, and these are given to the compiler as they are. In other words, the Clojure compiler does not compile only list data structures, but supports all of the mentioned types directly. Clojure is a Lisp-1, and is not intended to...
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