This is a minor nitpick but please check your facts about other Lisps when comparing them with Clojure. > Part of that is due to deviations from traditional Li

This is a minor nitpick but please check your facts about other Lisps when comparing them with Clojure. > Part of that is due to deviations from traditional Lisps: a more human readable API (first, rest etc.) first, second, rest ... are defined in Common Lisp > and less homoiconicity (data structure syntax). Clojure is no less homoiconic, you just write vector literals in your code; you could write vector literal to represent code in Common Lisp too, but in fact [], {} etc. are not used by default in CL because they are reserved for the user, so that it can be used for domain-specific purposes.