Yeah, I may have overstated the case for Java a bit. You don't need to be a Java expert, but you should know enough Java to be able to create your own classes,

Yeah, I may have overstated the case for Java a bit. You don't need to be a Java expert, but you should know enough Java to be able to create your own classes, and make simple little programs with multiple classes. Really though, you should know how to browse javadocs, and the java ecosystem. It is true that you can use clojure wrappers around java libs (and its nicer too) but a lot of them don't expose the full functionality of their java counterparts, and clojure's young enough that to understand how they work you'll have to dive heavily into their java interop.