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Website: http://www.clojure.org

A buddy of mine told me about a new Lisp dialect called Clojure. I have never used Lisp before (other than setting up my Emacs environment) but this looks cool, if you can get over looking at all the parentheses. The language is built on top of the JVM so you have access to any Java packages from Clojure.

I think this is really huge especially from the standpoint of "enterprise" development. I develop every day in Django and Django is awesome. One problem that I have experienced while working with a web development framework that isn't built in .NET or Java is that you basically give up working with "enterprise" companies because they tend to not trust anything other than those two languages, which is a problem in and of itself. Since clojure runs on JVM anything written in clojure will run on any machine running the JVM, kinda side stepping the idea that developing for "enterprise" has to be .NET or Java.

So I am going to look at Clojure and see what it has to offer. I like learning new things especially when they make me more of a geek.