Clojure will affect the way you think about programming
I don&#x27;t like working with clojure.<p>Its basically modern perl. I&#x27;ve worked with both professionally, and the outstanding point with both has been:<p>- programmers try to be clever in their code, write one giant file full of complicated specialized &#x27;beautiful&#x27; code, forget everything they know about breaking big tasks into simple small ones.<p>- code is a nightmare to maintain for non-author<p>- non-authors working on code results in adhoc mess of styles<p>Play with, sure. Learn a few things and watch the videos, absolutely. Rich is a really thoughtful talker. I actually quite enjoyed clojure before I had to collaborate on a code base.<p>...but goodness me. I cannot strongly enough recommend against using it professionally.