The things I like about Clojure: 1. It has the simplicity fo Scheme. 2. It has literals for datastructures. Hashmap: {"BANK" 122323 "TRANSFER" 212001} . That'

The things I like about Clojure: 1. It has the simplicity fo Scheme. 2. It has literals for datastructures. Hashmap: {"BANK" 122323 "TRANSFER" 212001} . That's it, I created one. Oh, here's a vector for you: [1 2 3 4 5]. Veru convenient, not revolutionary by any measure, just very convenient. And it doesn't sacrifice any power for that practicability. 3. It is more functional than common lisp. 4. Access to all the Java libraries. Whatever you want to do, there is a library. And yes the excessive amount of documentation you have to read to just do something simple might frustrate you but it's a lot more effective than re-solving a problem that has been solved a hundred times before. I think these things together make it an excellent language.