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		adambyrtek on April 3, 2011 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Immutability and Blocks, Lambdas and Closures The fundamental ideas come from existing languages, nobody is trying to contradict that. Clojure builds on the past, but its rich abstractions for concurrency and persistent data structures make it unique.

sid0 on April 3, 2011 [–]

What "abstractions for concurrency and persistent data structures" does Clojure have that aren't there in Lisp, Scheme, ML or Haskell?

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