> Clojure is a hosted language, CL isn't. There is nothing in the CL standard which says a single word about it. The idea of the standard is that it is possibl

> Clojure is a hosted language, CL isn't. There is nothing in the CL standard which says a single word about it. The idea of the standard is that it is possible to have different implementations: native on some CISC/RISC/Lisp CPU, on top of C, on top of a virtual machine, on top of the JVM, using the LLWM, etc etc... > That wouldn't be possible on the JVM. CL's condition system is unique to CL AFAIK. Let's run ABCL on the JVM, on my ARM-based ODROID: Armed Bear Common Lisp 1.3.3 Java 1.8.0-ea Oracle Corporation Java HotSpot(TM) Server VM Low-level initialization completed in 1.242 seconds. Startup completed in 6.577 seconds. Type ":help" for a list of available commands. CL-USER(1): (handler-case (and (evenp 2) (/ 3 0) (oddp 1)) (error (c) (princ c) (values))) Arithmetic error DIVISION-BY-ZERO signalled. oops, it supports the CL condition system...