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Please not scala! I prefer to have clojure for android. Scala is too complex, to ugly, and tries todo too much. Its also to heavy for android (it needs tons of libs to run).

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Clojure would be too large a leap syntax-wise I think. Scala at the very least gives you both FP and OOP in the same language.

Perhaps, but some people have built pretty amazing abstractions in Clojure. I just found this tutorial, and was quite impressed:

https://github.com/krisc/events/blob/master/tutorial.md

Similar abstractions implemented in Scala http://macroid.github.io/tutorial/BuildingLayouts.html

It seems to be that what's really needed is better JVM language interoperability in Android, then you can choose your poison.

* As an aside, for beginner programmers I think that asking them to use a Lisp is far more conceptually challenging than using the basic syntax of Scala (could be wrong though... I don't know Clojure, but I found Common Lisp fairly easy to understand yet know that many beginners do not).

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