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Clojure, Repl and UTF-8

Rich Hickey gave a fantastic presentation at QCon on “Persistent Data Structures” and Clojure - his lisp inspired, functional programming language for the Java Virtual Machine. Inspired by his talk, I have been playing around with Clojure all day. There’s a great plugin for Vim out there called VimClojure and after a few failed attempts I got a nice Repl up and running inside Vim (I might post something on how to get this set up at a later point, since the documentation is fairly sparse). So far so good, but when I started playing around with the Repl I got a bit of a shock.