I haven't programmed at all in lisp and less then a year in Clojure so my opinion doesn't carry much weight, but I did notice that a) imperative code is harder

I haven't programmed at all in lisp and less then a year in Clojure so my opinion doesn't carry much weight, but I did notice that a) imperative code is harder to read and b) later versions look more functional. So for what's worth I'm happy Clojure considers functional style and immutable data as defaults.