I'm not sure Clojure is _simpler_. I think Haskell may have more regularity and less variety in language constructs. I won't dispute that it is more alien to

I'm not sure Clojure is _simpler_. I think Haskell may have more regularity and less variety in language constructs. I won't dispute that it is more alien to most programmers, though, and that laziness and monadic IO require a bunch of work to get used to.