Well, if you are building your own thing for your own amusement you can find that perfect, more expressive language and use it. For those of us who work for so

Well, if you are building your own thing for your own amusement you can find that perfect, more expressive language and use it. For those of us who work for someone else - Clojure is a godsend. What's the alternative? No Lisp at all, and truly weirdly irregular syntax. Show me a single pragmatic and more or less popular language that's being used in the industry for building business apps that has nicer syntax than Clojure.