Judging by your comment, you have not actually looked at Clojure. I'll assume from your karma score that you aren't just a troll, and respond. 1. Clojure and S

Judging by your comment, you have not actually looked at Clojure. I'll assume from your karma score that you aren't just a troll, and respond. 1. Clojure and Scala have nothing in common with regard to syntax or language semantics. Clojure is a parenthesized, fully-prefix notation dynamically-typed language from the Lisp family. Scala is an infix object-based language with a tremendously complex static type system. 2. Clojure stands on its own well enough. It has a maturing CLR implementation. In the future, it will be reimplemented in itself, which will permit simpler implementations on platforms such as, e.g., LLVM. Google for Clojure-in-Clojure. 3. You can write plenty of Clojure code without touching Java interoperability at all. It all depends on your problem domain. The code will not look anything like Java.