[lunarprose]

Okay, serious question: What is an example of a mid-sized project to really begin hacking on Clojure? Simple programs utilizing multiple namespaces for trivial reasons are great and all, but if I want to really understand what Clojure can do for me in a few weeks, what should I be trying to build?

[verisimilidude]

My first Clojure app fetched large gobs of interconnected data from a graph database (Neo4j). That data needed to be sliced into many different shapes. Clojure and its many standard functions made the task surprisingly easy and fun.

[gdubs]

My first Clojure project was a simple chat server with multiple rooms. Built in a couple of days, and convinced me that it is indeed a powerful language.