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by simongray 1384 days ago
Or how about all three + Java: https://clojure.org/reference/lisps
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A document that puts these differences in context is Rich Hickey's "A History of Clojure"

https://download.clojure.org/papers/clojure-hopl-iv-final.pd...

The design decisions in this paper strongly resonate with me. It helped me to overcome my aversion to JVM-hosted languages, and settle down to learn Clojure.

I'm a research mathematician, at one extreme where code is steps up a mountain. I don't need to summit twice, so productivity is far more important than speed. Nevertheless, the fastest Clojure time trials use GraalVM:

https://www.graalvm.org/