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Classes in object-oriented programs tend to fall into two distinct categories: those that represent programming artifacts, such as String, Socket, InputStream, and OutputStream, and those that represent application domain information, such as Employee and PurchaseOrder.
Unfortunately, using classes to model application domain information hides it behind a class-specific micro-language of setters and getters. You can no longer take a generic approach to information processing, and you end up with a proliferation of unnecessary specificity and reduced reusability. See Clojure’s documentation on datatypes[50] for more information.
For this reason, Clojure has always encouraged the use of maps for modeling such information, and that ...
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