In case you're interested, Lisp can be implemented with 7 primitives (some say 5). So in a sense Clojure went overboard to increase the verbosity of Lisp to mak

In case you're interested, Lisp can be implemented with 7 primitives (some say 5). So in a sense Clojure went overboard to increase the verbosity of Lisp to make it easier for newcomers: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3482389/how-many-primitives-does-it-take-to-build-a-lisp-machine-ten-seven-or-five http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3482389/how-many-primitiv...