As was noted in the article, protocols and multimethods seem to be somewhat undervalued by the community. Maybe its because so many new users come from Java, Ru

As was noted in the article, protocols and multimethods seem to be somewhat undervalued by the community. Maybe its because so many new users come from Java, Ruby and Python, where you only have standard OO(whatever that means). It would seem prudent to me to address this issue, and popularize them more, with more tutorials or blog posts. I don't use clojure much these days, but in Common Lisp I use generic functions(the original inspiration for protocols and multimethods) all the time, and find them the second most important feature of CL after macros.