Quite frankly, the only reason this is a point of contention is because the author named their talk "Finally a useful Lisp". If they had just said "A new aweso

Quite frankly, the only reason this is a point of contention is because the author named their talk "Finally a useful Lisp". If they had just said "A new awesome Lisp" or something, they wouldn't be getting so much hate. Personally, I think Clojure is great. I like Common Lisp better. I also use Emacs Lisp and play around in Racket Scheme. It's when people try to say that their Lisp is the only useful one that us lispers get pissed off.