Thank you for sharing! You may have recognized that I'm not terribly aware of the history behind this discussion and its arguments. It's more of an intuition b

Thank you for sharing! You may have recognized that I'm not terribly aware of the history behind this discussion and its arguments. It's more of an intuition built from using and exploring Scheme and Clojure. My intuition is that if you have a uniform, flexible notation, then you get to use the same set of mechanical transformation tools for any language, which leads to more cross pollination and common solutions. But I could see how the meaning of that notation can get overloaded if you jump from context to context, say declarative versus algorithmic.