I won't challenge you, but if you're looking for a Clojure/LISP language discourse you might be interested in what James Clark has to say about his language cho

I won't challenge you, but if you're looking for a Clojure/LISP language discourse you might be interested in what James Clark has to say about his language choices. James is behind Ballerina and was working on SGML and groff in his former life, had specified/implemented DSSSL, the transformation and stylesheet language for SGML based on Scheme, and later XSLT (based on his experience with DSSSL, although without LISP syntax).