Clojure :: Functional Relational Programming with Cascalog(Updated Feb. 6 with corrections, below.) In 2006, Ben Mosely and Peter Marks published a paper, Out of the Tar Pit, in which they coined the term Functional Relational Programming. "Out of the Tar Pit" was influential on Clojure's design, particularly its emphasis on immutability and the separation of state from behavior. Mosely and Marks went further, however, in recommending that data be manipu
