> Personally, I like Clojure (which I am just learning now) in spite of the lack of objects. I think that the ability to write a Point class, encapsulate the co

> Personally, I like Clojure (which I am just learning now) in spite of the lack of objects. I think that the ability to write a Point class, encapsulate the coordinates, and expose an API is great. In my opinion, representing a Point as a vector or map, and then having a set of unassociated functions operating on these point-like collections sacrifices some good ideas that came from object-orientation. Since you mentioned you were learning, I thought I'd share that, although I like functions-on-data as much as the next guy, I often use protocols and records for tasks like this, generally for no reason other than organization and self-documentation: (defprotocol Pointy (add-vectors [this other]) ; ... ) (defrecord Point Pointy (add-vectors [{this-x :x this-y :y} {other-x :x other-y :y}] (->Point (+ this-x other-x) (+ this-y other-y))) ;... ) I think this has more to do with type-safety than object-orientation though.