[harperlee]

It seems that you can run it directly in the browser with clojurescript, which might help a lot with educating about the project. If memory serves, church did this.

Also there is some tradition on using lisps for AI; church, for example, is implemented on top of scheme.

Other probabilistic programming languages use prolog as ascendent and Prolog and lisps such as clojure are quite related.

But I don’t know if these were the reasons :)