Clojure is a language that runs on the JVM, the Java Virtual Machine.
I was advised to use Leiningen and I didn’t know why but I value my hair (see link) so I found out. I followed the ‘Install’ instructions at http://leiningen.org/, following the lein script option on my Linux box.
The syntax to run the Clojure REPL (Read, Execute, Print, Loop) environment from a .JAR file in the JVM is a bit tricksy. Once you’ve installed Leiningen, you only need to type
$ lein repl
and a rather worrying time later, the REPL announces itself. Leiningen is a build tool for Clojure so the ‘lein’ command has other options too, but I don’t think they matter to me right now so ‘All I need to do now’ is read ‘Clojure for the Brave and True’: http://www.braveclojure.com/
This has done nothing to shake my belief that functional programming is for nutters.
On The Outside 