Installing Leiningen
We are used to having certain tools to help us build our code, such as Ant, Maven, and Gradle.
In the Clojure ecosystem, the de facto standard for dependency and build management is Leiningen (affectionately named after the short story "Leiningen versus the Ants", which I recommend reading at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leiningen_Versus_the_Ants); Leiningen strives to be a familiar to Java developers, it gets the best ideas from Maven, like: convention over configuration. It also gets ideas from Ant like custom scripting and plugins.
Installing it is very simple, let's check how to do it on Mac OS X (installing on Linux should be the same) using bash as your default shell.
You should also have Java 7 or 8 already installed and ...
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