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Clojure is the first purely functional language I've ever tried to teach myself. I'm still learning, but I already find it a liberating experience to stop worrying about state and learn to love the function.

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Clojure is not 'pure'. At least in Haskell's sense of 'pure'.

He might be considering it from a functional-as-the-only-paradigm angle as opposed to the technical definition of pure functional.

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