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by diab0lic 2789 days ago
The two sibling replies to my own do a good job of enumerating the reasons;

- Macros allow you to greatly reduce boilerplate. - Lots of built in functions that operate on very few types. - Compact intertop

And I agree with wild_preference that this isn't necessarily a good vs. bad debate. It is just a matter of fact that Clojure is concise.