Etymology

From closure, respelled with the letter J from Java.

Pronunciation

• Homophone: closureCategory:English terms with homophones#CLOJURE

• Audio:

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  Category:English terms with audio pronunciation#CLOJURE

Proper noun

ClojureCategory:English lemmas#CLOJURECategory:English proper nouns#CLOJURECategory:English uncountable nouns#CLOJURECategory:English entries with incorrect language header#CLOJURECategory:Pages with entries#CLOJURECategory:Pages with 1 entry#CLOJURE

1. A dialect of the Lisp programming language that runs on the JVM.
   • 2014, Colin Jones, Mastering Clojure Macros: Write Cleaner, Faster, Smarter Code, Pragmatic Bookshelf, →ISBN:

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

     Category:English terms with quotations#CLOJURE

Further reading

• Clojure on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• James Turner, Clojure: Lisp meets Java, with a side of Erlang, O'Reilly Radar