#92: Clojure: a languages that will change the way you think about programming

Clojure is a dynamically, strongly typed programming language. It’s a dialect of Lisp running on the Java Virtual Machine. Lisp is 6 decades old and has a really weird syntax. That weird syntax is called Polish prefix notation. Basically, in every other language you’ve used math operators like plus or minus are infix. It means they are placed between operands. For example, 1 + 2. In Clojure, you always put the operator (or any other function for that matter) in front. So simple addition becomes… + 1 2.

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