Clojure
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Clojure (uncountable)
A dialect of the Lisp programming language that runs on the JVM.
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Clojure draws considerable influences from Haskell and places a very strong emphasis on immutability.
Cascalog is a data processing library for Clojure for processing Big Data on top of Hadoop or doing analysis on a local computer from the REPL.
If you’ve never looked at EDN, it looks a lot like Clojure, which is not surprising, as it is actually a subset of Clojure notation.
ClojureScript is probably more efficient for Clojure, but running Scala REPL (and scripts) would be really nice.
Clojure Standard LibraryThe standard library is one of the tools to master a language.
In September 2013 we blogged about why we’re supporting Typed Clojure, and you should too!