An Interview with Rich Hickey about Clojure (A-Z series)

Bonus: Plenty of other great interviews linked to from the first paragraph of the article. I am reading an interview of Simin Peyton Jones. http://www.computerworld.com.au/article/261007/-z_programmin...

The complete list is at http://www.computerworld.com.au/tag/a-z%20of%20programming%2...

very informative and enjoyable! There goes the day. I'll be reading these all day!

Did anyone else notice that he's started mentioning the CLR a lot more in this article? I know that there has been some recent work on getting Clojure running on the CLR and Clojure-in-Clojure; but I thought it was interesting that it's starting to return to Rich's conversations as well.

"Right now we're in the early adopter phase, with startups and ISVs using Clojure as a secret weapon and power tool."

Are any YC start-ups using Clojure?

Nice! I've been waiting for the Clojure A-Z serious interview for while.

So:

Clojure was born as a hybrid of FP and CL for the JVM, as that seemed perfect to the authors personal experience...

Sorry, but I'll not abandon my own way for such a personal preference style (if I only could remember where I already saw this pattern... hm [...]).

I'm perfectly OK with my chosen Lisp system (no, I won't tell you, no war fan I am).