You could have that in principle in any language. In Clojure it's built-in and idiomatic. Besides, there are people who prefer Clojure over Common Lisp and Sch

You could have that in principle in any language. In Clojure it's built-in and idiomatic. Besides, there are people who prefer Clojure over Common Lisp and Scheme. You asked why anyone would want Clojure without the JVM, I just told you there are many benefits, especially if your prefered language already is Clojure. Haskell really is something entirely diffrent than Clojure. Staticly typed, monads, template haskell. It's a nice language, but not as easy to use as Clojure IMHO.