It's threads like this that make the Clojure community really irk me sometimes. It's ok to think your language is great, but please take a reality check before

It's threads like this that make the Clojure community really irk me sometimes. It's ok to think your language is great, but please take a reality check before you go off and try to defend it against criticism! Judging by your comments, especially this fuzzy little one about elegant design, I would guess that you've spent very little time dealing with actual CPU and memory-related performance issues.