Clojure

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  1. 1
    A dialect of the Lisp programming language that runs on the JVM.

    "Allowing variable capture when we really, really want it makes Clojure's macro system technically more dangerous than hygienic systems."

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"Allowing variable capture when we really, really want it makes Clojure's macro system technically more dangerous than hygienic systems."

Etymology

From closure, respelled with the letter J from Java.

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