Part of the perfection is that it can relatively easily be reimplemented and varied. Clojure uses this to leverage the JVM and adds support for concurrency etc.

Part of the perfection is that it can relatively easily be reimplemented and varied. Clojure uses this to leverage the JVM and adds support for concurrency etc. When people say Lisp is perfection they don't mean that one particular Lisp is perfection, but the idea of Lisp is perfection - or damn close to it.