I can't believe Ruby made it further than Smalltalk when ST was eliminated for performance reasons. Also, it's too bad that Clojure is eliminated purely due t

I can't believe Ruby made it further than Smalltalk when ST was eliminated for performance reasons. Also, it's too bad that Clojure is eliminated purely due to syntax. I find well-writte Clojure very easy to read after spending a bit of time with s-expressions. I think that some of its constructs (like loop and recur) are very elegant ways to describe a program. Also, recur, in tail position, is used to implement recursion without overflowing the stack so that's not really a problem for Clojure anymore.