Clojure as a first progamming language?
JimmyL: If you want to learn a language from the perspective of getting something done (in the startup webapp sphere), go for Python/Django or Ruby/Rails - they both have mature, well-established communities with plenty of documentation and available libraries.Clojure seems quite cool, but it's a relatively new language and, especially when compared to the other two platforms mentioned above, it lacks the wealth of institutional knowledge about delivering good webapps that forms a significant portion of the value of Rails or Django.Clojure is the exciting new thing you blog about. Rails or Django is what you used to write the blog itself.