Clojure

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Clojure ( , like "closure") is a dialect of the Lisp programming language. Clojure is a general-purpose programming language with an emphasis on functional programming. It runs on the Java virtual machine and the Common Language Runtime. Read more on Wikipedia...

• the Clojure website
• the Clojure Wikipedia page
• There are at least 82,125 Clojure repos on GitHub
• PLDB estimates there are currently 469 job openings for Clojure programmers.
• file extensions for Clojure include clj, cljs, cljc, edn, bb, boot, cl2, cljshl, cljscm, cljx and hic
• The Google BigQuery Public Dataset GitHub snapshot shows 14k users using Clojure in 26k repos on GitHub
• Check out the 378 Clojure meetup groups on Meetup.com.
• There are 29,258 members in the Clojure subreddit
• There are 1,655 Project Euler users using Clojure
• In the 2021 StackOverflow developer survey Clojure programmers reported a median salary of $95,000. 2% of respondents reported using Clojure. 1,552 programmers reported using Clojure, and 2,413 said they wanted to use it
• Explore Clojure snippets on Rosetta Code
• Clojure ranks #42 in the TIOBE Index
• There is an Ubuntu package for Clojure
• Here is an ANTLR grammar for Clojure
• Here is a Clojure LSP implementation
• There is a CodeMirror package for syntax highlighting Clojure
• There is a Monaco package for syntax highlighting Clojure
• Pygments supports syntax highlighting for Clojure
• GitHub supports syntax highlighting for Clojure
• Clojure appears in the Quine Relay project
• There are 2 Jupyter Kernels for Clojure: 1,2
• There is a central package repository for Clojure
• Clojure cheat sheet
• Indeed.com has 355 matches for "clojure engineer".
• clojure.org was registered in 2005
• See also: JVM, C#, Common Lisp, Erlang, Haskell, Mathematica, ML, Prolog, Scheme, Java, Racket, Ruby, Elixir, Lisp, Apache Maven, S-expressions, CSP, ActionScript, Python, Unicode
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https://clojure.org/reference/macros

(load "fun")
(load "files/fun")
(load-file "./files/fun.clj")
(defproject project-a
:dependencies [[org.clojure/clojure "1.5.1"]
              [project-b "0.1.0"]])
(require '[clojure.string :as string])
(use '[clojure.string :only [split]])
(import 'java.util.Date)
(java.util.Date.)
(require 'clojure.contrib.def 'clojure.contrib.except 'clojure.contrib.sql)
(require '(clojure.contrib def except sql))

(defn fun-full [x y] (+ x y))
(fun-full 2 3)
(def fun-half (partial fun-full 2))
(fun-half 3)

"hello world"

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