Unfortunately, no direct comparison to Lisps. The two downsides mentioned regarding FP are not an issue if you are using a REPL and a Lisp: - excellent IDE su

Unfortunately, no direct comparison to Lisps. The two downsides mentioned regarding FP are not an issue if you are using a REPL and a Lisp: - excellent IDE support, since you are working inside your program (which can be inspected) - paradigm a la carte: you want named arguments? Go for it (split :string "foo,bar" :by ",") you want different invocation syntax? (3 + 4) or (3 4 +) is just a macro away and a bit easier to read than: (this Int).square | Int = this.*(this) YMMV you want to define your data shape? use your favorite schema language you want monads? just use a library you want go-routines? just use a library you want compile time types? just use a library