> the language tries to drive me to the cleanest solution

This is really appealing to me. I've hacked a bit with Ruby (One Month Rails and some other tutorials), but I'm not sophisticated enough to know instinctively how to refactor towards "clean" or "elegant." Most of my code is pretty ugly, and gets uglier the longer I work on it, since when I'm hacking on something without guidance I spend a lot of time just trying not to break things. Is there a good resource for a non-programmer to start learning Clojure? The syntax is a bit scary to me, but I just think back to when I first learned about programming and figure diving in will eventually make it read more sensibly to me.

Also, being connected to a live REPL seems pretty valuable for learning.