It will be shorter, maybe not by half. But keep in mind that the "reality" you are talking about is in some aspects an artifact of the language in which the res

It will be shorter, maybe not by half. But keep in mind that the "reality" you are talking about is in some aspects an artifact of the language in which the rest of the software system has been constructed. For instance, some edge cases (such as special treatment of nulls, some exceptions) happen to be less important in Clojure and other "Java.next()" languages. I do hope someone will post an equivalent Clojure program. Unfortunately, my knowledge of Java is limited, and I have not touched Clojure in many months now, so cannot do it myself. Sorry.