TinyWeb in Clojure
Now let’s take TinyWeb and translate it into Clojure. This is going to be a bigger leap than the translation from Java to Scala, so we’ll take it slowly.
The most obvious difference between Clojure and Java is the syntax. It’s very different than the C-inspired syntax found in most modern programming languages. This isn’t incidental: the syntax enables one of Clojure’s most powerful features, macros, which we’ll cover in Pattern 21, Domain-Specific Language.
A Gentle Introduction to Clojure
For now let’s just have a gentle introduction. Clojure uses prefix syntax, which just means that the function name comes before the function arguments in a function call. Here we call the count function to get the size of a vector, ...
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