A more complete and detailed answer to this article's question is provided by the free Chapter 1 of Amit Rathore's book-in-progress, Clojure in Action: http://

A more complete and detailed answer to this article's question is provided by the free Chapter 1 of Amit Rathore's book-in-progress, Clojure in Action: http://www.manning.com/rathore/ http://www.manning.com/rathore/ As Rathore puts it, Clojure's power is drawn from three mutually supportive design decisions: 1) it's a Lisp, 2) it's functional, and 3) it's on the JVM. Read Chapter 1, it's well written.