> - Open up the reader. A Lisp without full reader macros is unlikely to win over all potential converts, not because reader macros are this incredibly common t

> - Open up the reader. A Lisp without full reader macros is unlikely to win over all potential converts, not because reader macros are this incredibly common thing, but because the personality of most Lisp hackers tends to thinking like "well I don't think I'll need a reader macro, but why would I want a language that won't even give me the option?" While I agree that most of the other points are valid personal opinions, this one could safely be ignored. New Clojure users are largely converted from the enormous Java, Scala, Ruby, ... developer pool, and ignoring the projected wishes of (Common) Lisp programmers is a valid choice.