Both versions are really nice but I find the C version to be lots easier to understand (I come from a C background, so that's probably not a surprise). What do

Both versions are really nice but I find the C version to be lots easier to understand (I come from a C background, so that's probably not a surprise). What does this look like to an experienced lisp/clojure programmer, do they have the same feeling but reversed? What about programmers familiar with other languages?