Wrapping Up Clojure
Clojure combines the power of a Lisp dialect with the convenience of the JVM. From the JVM, Clojure benefits from the existing community, deployment platform, and code libraries. As a Lisp dialect, Clojure comes with the corresponding strengths and limitations.
The Lisp Paradox
Clojure is perhaps the most powerful and flexible language in this book. Multimethods allow multiparadigm code, and macros let you redefine the language on the fly. No other language in this book provides this powerful combination. That flexibility has proven to be an incredible strength. In Hackers and Painters, Graham chronicles a start-up that leveraged productivity with Lisp to achieve productivity that no other vendors could match. Some emerging ...
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