Clojure Behind the Scenes
Go over a short overview of the history of the Clojure language and how it differs from other functional programming languages.
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Brief history
Clojure is a young language. It was designed in 2005 and released in 2007 by Rich Hickey, a distinguished software engineer. The main idea was to have a practical functional language that would be a great fit for general problems. Plus, it would be more appealing for use in the industry. Before Clojure, functional programming languages were usually only approached in an academic environment.