A bit off topic, check out JScheme http://norvig.com/jscheme.html http://norvig.com/jscheme.html a Scheme implementation for the JVM. Peter Norving wrote it in

A bit off topic, check out JScheme http://norvig.com/jscheme.html http://norvig.com/jscheme.html a Scheme implementation for the JVM. Peter Norving wrote it initially as a way to learn Java in 1998. So he decided he'd write Scheme implementation in Java in couple of hours.(I swear, his Java code still looks better than mine today and he wrote it 11 years ago. :)) I see loads of code in JScheme that could have influenced Clojure to some degree.