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by ska 3751 days ago

   What do you all think are the "good bits" of lisp that Clojure lacks?
Compared to common lisp off the top of my head (correct me if I am misrepresenting Clojure from memory): condition system, multiple return values and &key, CLOS with all that entails, and I seem to remember that clojure had some fiddly issues with macros and reader macros.

Not intended as a knock on Clojure, btw, but the JVM is somewhat limiting, in the same way you can't do a "proper" common lisp on the CLR.