Clojure
Sign in to saveClojure (, like closure) is a dynamic and functional dialect of the programming language Lisp on the Java platform.
Key facts
- 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
via Wikipedia infobox
~13 min read
Encyclopedic overview
12 sectionsContents
- History
- Design
- Extensible Data Notation
- Alternative platforms
- Tools
- Development
- Impact
- Release history
- See also
- References
- Further reading
- External links
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.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Clojure” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.