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Clojure is a dynamic programming language that targets the Java Virtual
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Machine. It is designed to be a general-purpose language, combining the
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approachability and interactive development of a scripting language with
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an efficient and robust infrastructure for multithreaded programming.
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Clojure is a compiled language - it compiles directly to JVM bytecode,
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yet remains completely dynamic. Every feature supported by Clojure is
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supported at runtime. Clojure provides easy access to the Java frameworks,
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with optional type hints and type inference, to ensure that calls to Java
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can avoid reflection.
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Clojure is a dialect of Lisp, and shares with Lisp the code-as-data
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philosophy and a powerful macro system. Clojure is predominantly a
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functional programming language, and features a rich set of immutable,
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persistent data structures. When mutable state is needed, Clojure offers a
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software transactional memory system that ensures clean, correct,
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multithreaded designs.
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WWW: http://clojure.sourceforge.net/
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