If you need to touch on the why of Clojure I found the example in the beginning Stuart Halloways book quite a good one. the isBlank in Java and the one line blank? equivalent in Clojure. Show them the Java, talk it through with them and then highlight some of its downsides (multiple if statements, the loop, local variables, the fact that the two statements in the first if with can only be ordered in that way etc). and then show them the clojure code, talk them through that and show them what it better (even if functionally completely equivalent) about it.
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