[keymone]

right, but technically so is Clojure - you can get your hands dirty and mutable with relative ease.

Scala's problem is that they marketed it as "we're almost java - you can just sprinkle some functionalness on your code as you go and you'll be fine".

[yogthos]

Clojure is a lot more focused and opinionated. It's unarguably a functional language first and foremost. Note that you can write any style of code in any Turing complete language, the key difference is what style of code the language encourages.