> its success doesn't have much to do, from what I can tell, with the actual design of the language. Wow, really? This seems way off base to me. The only reaso

> its success doesn't have much to do, from what I can tell, with the actual design of the language. Wow, really? This seems way off base to me. The only reason I care about Clojure is 'persistent' data structures that give us some chance of writing code that /just, maybe, possibly/ will execute usefully on the 1024+-core boxes we're going to be using shortly. That's the only reason I care about it, and I'd say that's fundamentally the design of the language.