[nathell]

Can you clarify what number you mean by “a lot” and/or cite some research to corroborate this claim?

You quote one article [0], which has been received by the Clojure community with almost unanimous disagreement, as the author himself acknowledges (in less than friendly words).

That article in turn contains little factual information and lots of expressive verbiage. In my experience, this opinion is very much in the minority, albeit a vocal one.

[0]: http://www.loper-os.org/?p=42

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I quoted a macro that gets spammed on discussion forums. Of course it isn't popular with Clojurists, it mocks them. The origin article is irrelevant. If you copy and paste that paragraph into a search engine, you'll find it on multiple discussion forums.

Go to just about any Lisp forum that isn't explicitly for Clojure, and you'll find people hating on Clojure. Hating on Clojure and hating on newLISP are the only two things that Lisp users can agree on. I like both of them (though I like Clojure a lot less), but I find the slander hilarious and can understand why people disagree that they're real dialects.