How do you know what is in people's head? You did read the very next sentence when I talked about my abandoning one Clojure solution for exactly this reason?

How do you know what is in people's head? You did read the very next sentence when I talked about my abandoning one Clojure solution for exactly this reason? I love Clojure to death. It's excellent. But there are lots of folk like me who are just gasping to go play with production Lisp when other solutions would probably be better. Not saying there aren't many great real-world uses for Clojure. Look at the stuff Datomic are doing for example... but I see lots of folk (myself included) spending two weeks tweaking Clojure stuff, dealing with warm-up timing issues for the JVM, etc. when we should probably just chuck something together with Sinatra and get the job done :-) I assert that lots of folk are using perl because it's comfortable to them rather than it being the best solution. Agreed. Sorry if I seemed to imply otherwise.