I think most of what is good/unique about clojure doesn't come from being lisp though. For example - its concurrency constructs, seq/lazy-seq abstraction, persi

I think most of what is good/unique about clojure doesn't come from being lisp though. For example - its concurrency constructs, seq/lazy-seq abstraction, persistent data structures that work with seq, java interop, etc. Being a lisp doesn't hurt it, especially in the context of DSLs mentioned, but I don't think it defines it either.