it's a different programming experience; e.g. as a matter of taste i prefer lisp-1 to lisp-2, and then clojure has added some nice stuff around collections and

it's a different programming experience; e.g. as a matter of taste i prefer lisp-1 to lisp-2, and then clojure has added some nice stuff around collections and immutability and some pleasant syntax. it would be nice for people who like all that to also take advantage of common lisp's excellent backends.