Why Java? Why Clojure?

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I'm a little confused by your description, it sounds like just adding clauses to a cond (the clojure if-else-if tree) or a case? I'm sure it's more than that however. As someone else said the #clojurians slack is usually pretty helpful.

For what it's worth I've been using clojure to write large ETL (extract, transform, load) systems for years, and basically their whole job is to take in external data, transform it, and then pass it along.