Wrapping Up

You have just experienced the whirlwind tour of Clojure. You’ve seen Clojure’s expressive syntax, learned about Clojure’s approach to Lisp, and seen how easy it is to call Java code from Clojure.

You have Clojure running in your own environment, and you’ve written short programs at the REPL to demonstrate functional programming and the reference model for dealing with state. Now it’s time to explore the entire language.

Footnotes

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https://github.com/apache/commons-lang/blob/master/src/main/java/org/apache/commons/lang3/StringUtils.java

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homoiconicity

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http://www.paulgraham.com/icad.html

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http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/downloads/index.html

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https://clojure.org/guides/getting_started ...

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