I dropped by the Java Users’ Group meeting last week since Rich Hickey was there to talk about Clojure.

I expected a bit of carping from the Java guys, and at first they were all “efficiency this” and “security that.” But by mid-way through the talk I think they were getting it. A few even got excited about macros.

If I didn’t make it clear in my first post about Clojure, I like this language. Here’s some more reasons why: