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Clojure is built on Java not only because it is a portable, feature-rich platform, but because thousands of libraries, both open-source and commercial, are written in Java. Clojure can leverage all this existing code to get past the “library problem” that plagues most new programming languages.
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VanderHart, L., Sierra, S. (2010). Java Interoperability. In: Andres, C., et al. Practical Clojure. Apress. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4302-7230-4_10
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