Clojure

Question 1

Unlike most Lisp systems, Clojure doesn’t use its own custom virtual machine. It was originally designed to compile to code that would run on the ANSWER.

Answer 1

JVM

Java Virtual Machine

Question 2

The main programming paradigm for Clojure is ANSWER programming.

Answer 2

functional

Question 3

The loop and recur constructs are in Clojure to guide ANSWER.

Answer 3

tail recursion optimization

tail recursion elimination

Question 4

In Clojure, the value of (repeat 1) is ANSWER.

Answer 4

an infinite sequence of 1s

a lazy infinite sequence of 1s

Question 5

In Clojure, (take 3 (iterate (fn [x] (* 2 x)) 2)) produces ANSWER.

Answer 5

(4 8 16)

Question 6

The main Clojure approach to concurrency is called ANSWER.

Answer 6

Software Transactional Memory

STM

Question 7

In Clojure, ANSWER is a concurrency construct that allows an asynchronous return before computation is complete.

Answer 7

a future

Question 8

In Clojure, you cannot change a reference outside of ANSWER,

Answer 8

a transaction