I mean, you said you were allergic to the JVM, not to Java syntax. Those are clearly different things, and especially nonsensical in this context as Clojure is

I mean, you said you were allergic to the JVM, not to Java syntax. Those are clearly different things, and especially nonsensical in this context as Clojure is not Java (indeed Clojure tends to be one of more terse languages in practice).