It also uses fewer parens than other lisps. Clojure let statement (let [foo "bar" baz "qux"] foo) => "bar" Scheme (let ((foo "bar") (baz "qux")) foo) "bar" So

It also uses fewer parens than other lisps. Clojure let statement (let [foo "bar" baz "qux"] foo) => "bar" Scheme (let ((foo "bar") (baz "qux")) foo) "bar" So in addition to additional symbols for notating vectors, map, etc, it uses fewer parens in general.