[reitzensteinm]

You call Clojure a cargo cult descendant, which implies it's failing to achieve what its ancestors did, by copying features haphazardly without understanding the deeper motivations behind them.

Clojure is a shitty substitute for CL, but that's just not what it is trying to be. It is an interesting and worthy system in its own right.

[kazinator]

No it doesn't imply that; you can easily succeed while copying features haphazardly and without understanding the deeper motivations behind them.