It's not supposed to be profound. It's just a tiny tutorial/taster. He has more to say (fwiw) on the why here: http://blog.cleancoder.com/uncle-bob/2019/08/22/W

It's not supposed to be profound. It's just a tiny tutorial/taster. He has more to say (fwiw) on the why here: http://blog.cleancoder.com/uncle-bob/2019/08/22/WhyClojure.html http://blog.cleancoder.com/uncle-bob/2019/08/22/WhyClojure.h... Quite agree on your syntax comments. The morphology of the syntax itself (as opposed to its consistency, homoiconicity, etc) is uninteresting. Who even notices syntax after a while using a programming language? I think I could edit any of the languages I know in any of a number of surface representations - syntax as-is, some kind of graphical AS tree, graphical nested bubbles, etc etc. I honestly think the syntax fetish is just because people want to write something (we all like the sound of our own voices/keyboards), and if they don't know anything about a language, emoting on surface syntax is about all they've got.