[btilly]

I understand what you are saying. I am unable to back it up or refute it from my personal experience. I do not know Clojure well enough.

I do know from personal experience that programming in a familiar environment is significantly more productive than programming in an unfamiliar one. And that many, many programmers have mistaken their personal productivity for the productiveness of the environment.

This is one of the causes of a lot of "holy wars". Because everything from indentation style, to operating system, to text editor, to language feels critical. And indeed is...for the programmer who hasn't learned how to switch between these things.

If someone had an oracle that could give us the answer, I would happily take an even money bet that something of this at least contributes to how much you prefer Clojure.

I also agree with you that there is a lot of personal taste and way of thinking involved. And furthermore that our opinions usually match whatever environment(s) we imprinted on. (In the interests of full disclosure, my background is math, Perl and relational databases.)