Why Clojure?
Clojure is a small language that has simplicity and correctness as its primary goals. Being a functional language, it emphasizes immutability and declarative programming. As you’ll see in this book, these features make it easy and idiomatic to write clean and correct code.
There are many languages to choose from and as many opinions on what makes any one of them a good language. Some languages are simple but verbose. You’ve probably heard people say that verbosity really doesn’t matter, the argument being that when two languages are Turing complete, anything that can be written in one language can also be written in the other with a bit of extra code.
I think that’s missing the point, however. The real question is not whether ...
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