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There are quite a few things in Clojure that are similar to Ruby. nil? empty? and count all do in Clojure what you'd expect from Ruby. take-while, drop-while are a couple other examples.


The funny thing is that the reason for the similarity is that Matz "borrowed" most of those features from older lisps.




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