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Re:Clojure will affect the way you think about programming by keymone on Friday August 04, 2017 @10:19AM (#14928827)
right, but technically so is Clojure - you can get your hands dirty and mutable with relative ease.

Scala's problem is that they marketed it as "we're almost java - you can just sprinkle some functionalness on your code as you go and you'll be fine".

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Re:Clojure will affect the way you think about programming by yogthos on Friday August 04, 2017 @10:57AM (#14929131)
Clojure is a lot more focused and opinionated. It's unarguably a functional language first and foremost. Note that you can write any style of code in any Turing complete language, the key difference is what style of code the language encourages.
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