[swannodette]

With Clojure 1.2.0 and the build tools Leiningen or Cake you can get very far along w/o needing to know much about Java.

[silentbicycle]

Thanks for the meaningful response. I know CL (sbcl . clisp) and Scheme (Chicken . Scheme48), but haven't done much with the JVM and I've been uncertain what relevance Clojure has.