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Clojure is a general-purpose language supporting interactive development that encourages a functional programming style, and simplifies multithreaded programming.

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What's so great about Clojure? [closed]

I've been taking a look at Clojure lately and I stumbled upon this post on Stackoverflow that indicates some projects following best practices, and overall good Clojure code. … I don't understand why someone would pick Clojure over say, Ruby or Python, two languages that I love and have such a clean syntax and are very easy to pick up whereas Clojure uses so much parenthesis …
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