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Clojure

Clojure (, like closure) is a dynamic and functional dialect of the programming language Lisp on the Java platform.

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Programming language.name: Clojure
Programming language.logo: Clojure logo.svg
Programming language.logo size: 120px
Programming language.paradigm: multi-paradigm:
Programming language.family: Lisp
Programming language.designer: Rich Hickey
Programming language.latest release version: 1.12.3
Programming language.memory management: Garbage collection via a host (JVM, CLR, a JavaScript runtime such as V8 in case of ClojureScript or BEAM (see below)
Programming language.dialects: ClojureScript, ClojureDart
Programming language.license: Eclipse Public
Programming language.wikibooks: Clojure Programming

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Clojure (, like closure) is a dynamic and functional dialect of the programming language Lisp on the Java platform.

Like most other Lisps, Clojure's syntax is built on S-expressions that are first parsed into data structures by a Lisp reader before being compiled. Clojure's reader supports literal syntax for maps, sets, and vectors along with lists, and these are compiled to the mentioned structures directly. Clojure treats code as data and has a Lisp macro system. Clojure is a Lisp-1 and is not intended to be code-compatible with other dialects of Lisp, since it uses its own set of data structures incompatible with other Lisps.