If we were forced to use only selected, most popular languages to communicate and ban all others, everyone would have to speak Mandarin, Spanish, and English. A

If we were forced to use only selected, most popular languages to communicate and ban all others, everyone would have to speak Mandarin, Spanish, and English. And the world would never know the Quran, the Bible, Arabian Nights, the Epic of Gilgamesh, War and Peace, the Ramayana, or the Divine Comedy. There are some good examples of applications that are specifically written in Clojure and would be quite difficult to replicate in other PLs - Roam Research and Logseq, XTDB and Datomic, Nextjournal and Precursor. > And the worst reason of all to make a language is anything aesthetic Interestingly, people avoid learning Lisp, because it doesn't look "sexy enough" the first time they see it.