Skip to main content guest Join | Help | Sign In Clojure Home guest | Join | Help | Sign In Clojure Dev IRC Blog Wiki Download Google Group Videos Contrib Libraries Rationale Features Download Getting Started Documentation Libraries Community Contributing ClojureScript ClojureCLR License state Edit 0 9 … 0 Tags No tags Notify RSS Backlinks Source Print Export (PDF) ws:start:WikiTextHeadingRule:0:<h1> Many people come to Clojure from an imperative language and find themselves out of their element when faced with Clojure's approach to doing things, while others are coming from a more functional background and assume that once they leave Clojure's functional subset, they will be faced with the same story re: state as is found in Java. This essay intends to illuminat...