Introduction

Clojure is a functional programming language and dialect of the Lisp programming language, which means it use prefix notation for all its expressions, which runs on the Java Virtual Machine (JVM).

From Clojure's website: https://clojure.org

Clojure is a dialect of Lisp, and shares with Lisp the code-as-data philosophy and a powerful macro system. Clojure is predominantly a functional programming language, and features a rich set of immutable, persistent data structures. When mutable state is needed, Clojure offers a software transactional memory system and reactive Agent system that ensure clean, correct, multithreaded designs.

Clojure is a compiled and JVM-hosted language. It's compiler translates Clojure forms into JVM bytecode, which is then executed by the JVM.…