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Clojure Functional Language

Robust, practical, and fast functional programming language targeting the JVM and JavaScript.

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Clojure

Functional LanguageEst. 2007

Authored by Rich Hickey

Ring 3 Dynamic

Robust, practical, and fast functional programming language targeting the JVM and JavaScript.

Paradigms

FunctionalLispConcurrent-STM

Typology & Memory

Persistent Data-Structure Dynamic Functional Lisp

Immutable Persistent Collections

Grammar & Syntax Rules

(defn -main [& args]
  (println "Hello from Clojure"))

Representative Code Recipe

Canonical Example

(defn hash-payload [user-id data]
  (let [signature (str user-id ":" (hash data))]
    {:id user-id :sig signature :timestamp (System/currentTimeMillis)}))