I learned Clojure because I had to. CircleCI.com is built in clojure, and my cofounder was a Clojure expert at the time we started building it. So I spent 6 wee

I learned Clojure because I had to. CircleCI.com is built in clojure, and my cofounder was a Clojure expert at the time we started building it. So I spent 6 weeks with pretty poor productivity as I learned clojure and emacs at the same time (this is in late 2011, when the vim story wasn't great for clojure). I did the exercises at 4clojure.com, I read Joy of Clojure, and I read all of Allen's commits. Obviously, I also wrote a lot of Clojure, of decreasingly poor quality as I went on.