A lot of other people have already made the case for Clojure, and you may not be swayed by me either, but I want to add one point that hasn't been explicitly ma

A lot of other people have already made the case for Clojure, and you may not be swayed by me either, but I want to add one point that hasn't been explicitly made yet. I think irahul's point number 4 is one of the more interesting parts of Clojure, and would be beneficial for any programmer who is interested in alternatives to classical OOP, as found in Java, Ruby, Python, C++, C# and many other languages. Clojure's approach to OOP has been described by many people as "OOP a la carte", meaning that you get to pick and choose which parts of OOP you want to leverage. Protocols, multimethods, hierarchies,... they all give you a lot of flexibility and choice to determine the kind of OOP you want to use. I think in general, Clojure is just a fantastically well designed language, and that the underlying goals of reducing complexity in programming are things that almost any curious programmer should investigate. I think if you just went to clojure.org and read through the list of links on the left, which wouldn't take more than an hour or two, you would get a great idea if there's anything you find interesting. Alternatively, the "Clojure for Java Programmers" talk is a great intro to the language for non-Lispers, whether you're coming from Java or not. The "Clojure for Lisp programmers" is even better, if you have some experience with Lisp.