Clojure is a better language, and a better Lisp, and a better tool for making software, but not "really" a Lisp. If you want to learn about Lisp, I think you s

Clojure is a better language, and a better Lisp, and a better tool for making software, but not "really" a Lisp. If you want to learn about Lisp, I think you should zero in on Scheme, Common Lisp, and Emacs Lisp. But this of course depends on what you want. The cons cell thing is a big deal. Cons cells are a stupid language construct. But that's baked into the identity of what Lisp is.