Why Clojure?
Clojure is a small language whose primary goals are simplicity and correctness. As 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.
Web development has 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 doesn’t matter—that if 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. The real question is not whether something can be expressed in principle; ...
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