No, Clojure isn't Scheme. Scheme has hygienic macros and pattern matching on syntax, which in turn Racket's `syntax-parse` library makes even better. Clojure..

No, Clojure isn't Scheme. Scheme has hygienic macros and pattern matching on syntax, which in turn Racket's `syntax-parse` library makes even better. Clojure... well... has that ugly `defmacro` kludge. EDIT: I was being kind of unfair. Clojure also has kickass collections in its standard library, which Scheme doesn't have.