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The March Issue of the OCI Java News Brief (JNB) is out.

Since I last reported on JNB in December, three JNB articles have appeared:

• Eric Burke—A Simple Android App and a Threading Bug
• Dan Lewis—Google Collections, Part 2
• Mark Volkmann—Clojure - Functional Programming for the JVM

Mark's article, just out, gives a comprehensive coverage of the Clojure programming language. (It prints out to 60 pages.) According to Mark:

Mark Volkmann: Here are some key questions to ask yourself that will help in deciding whether you should give Clojure a try...

• Are you looking for a way to make concurrent programming easier?
• Are open to branching outside the world of object-oriented programming to try functional programming?
• Is it important for the applications you write to run on the JVM in order to take advantage of existing Java libraries, portability and other benefits?
• Do you prefer dynamically-typed languages over statically-typed ones?
• Do you find the minimal, consistent syntax of Lisp dialects appealing?

If you answered "yes" some of these questions then you should consider Clojure for your next programming language.