Off and on I've been doing the exercises and examples in Clojure, and it's a little difficult because the Python examples seem so imperative to me. It's been a

Off and on I've been doing the exercises and examples in Clojure, and it's a little difficult because the Python examples seem so imperative to me. It's been a challenge turning them into functional code, there's a couple of places where I go over a list twice when I probably should be able to get all I need with one pass, and of course when I have to resort to using an atom or ref I feel a little dirty.