[yakshaving_jgt]

Ok, thank you for clarifying.

Frankly, it’s not often I hear a rational argument like this in a typical Haskell vs Clojure debate. Usually I just hear zealotry and a refusal to address Clojure’s shortcomings, just like in the Robert Martin blog post. In fact come to think of it, many of the other comments on this thread which are replies to criticisms of Clojure are along the lines of “well, maybe you just didn’t try hard enough. Maybe you failed. It’s not the system that failed. Clojure is too perfect to fail.”

This kind of rhetoric is frighteningly similar to that used in multi-level marketing.

I won’t deny Clojure’s benefits. They are there, and I did say in another comment that Clojure is one of the most sound dynamic languages. But I don’t think everyone is honest like you were just now about its drawbacks. Robert Martin certainly isn’t honest about it.