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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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How do people get rid of conditional branches in Functional Programming?

But functional programming is largely orthogonal to object oriented programming, so absolute majority of "functional" languages are also object oriented¹, including clojure. …
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Using Clojure instead of Python for scalability (multi-core) reasons, good idea?

Clojure, of course. Like other lisps it is designed for functional programming, but supports imperative programming as well. …
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clojure/erlang/go for high volume server

Advantage of Erlang is that it has distributed processing including fail-over built in while for the other two languages you would have to give a bit of thought to making sure it can run on multiple s …
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Python decorators and Lisp macros

In Python (the language) the decorators cannot modify the function, only wrap it, so they are definitely far less powerful than lisp macros. In CPython (the interpreter) the decorators can modify the …
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