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		cnp on Nov 9, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: ClojureScript 101 If someone could provide a good pointer to better understand lisp syntax / Clojure I would appreciate it. Clojure is so confusing and hard to follow for the beginner!

NoodleIncident on Nov 10, 2013 [–]

The biggest difference is that functions go after the left-paren, not before. Commas are also unnecessary, they're just whitespace

    foo(bar, baz) => (foo bar baz)

    herp(bar, derp(baz)) => (herp bar (derp baz))

This might help as well: http://adambard.com/blog/clojure-in-15-minutes/

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