[User23]

Clojure is a sort of baby’s first lisp. That’s not a bad thing by the way. Its relative simplicity and restrictiveness are usually beneficial for corporate environments and I like working in it.

That said, if you want to talk about lisp you should really talk about Common Lisp. And there are a lot of solid criticisms of Common Lisp, but not enough features isn’t one I’ve heard before. The LOOP facility alone has an absurd number of features, to say nothing of the Meta Object Protocol.

It’s fair to say that a proficient Lisper can write performant code in any set of paradigms you like using a modern Common Lisp implementation. That comes with some considerable trade-offs though.