Clojure
Clojure is a newer dialect of Lisp that runs on the Java Virtual Machine (JVM). It is intended for general-purpose use. It encourages functional programming and is designed to make writing multithreaded applications easier. Because of the close integration with Java, Clojure applications can be packaged and deployed to JVM environments without adding complexity. It also provides easy access to Java frameworks, and Clojure’s data structures all implement standard Java interfaces.
Closures are a common in programming, especially in functional programming languages, including Clojure. (The name is rumored to be a mash-up of closure and Java.) Typically, variables are designed to only work within a defined function. A closure is a way to ...
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