[jeffdavis]

I've never quite bought into the lisp idea that maximum "power" or "expressiveness" is always good. I could see it being an advantage for library authors who could present better, safer interfaces to the library's functionality. But if you have a startup, how much time do you have to build libraries and refine their interfaces?

I doubt that these qualities are so good that they would be a material advantage for application developers. And certainly not material enough that it would affect the outcome of a startup (unless it makes the engineers more motivated).

That being said, I hope clojure succeeds, and it's on my list to learn sometime (though not in the top 3).