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Same, I've been torn between learning Clojure—which I think is brilliantly designed, but I dislike its reliance on the JVM and exceptions vs conditions/restarts—and Common Lisp, that comes with a standard library that feels older than POSIX and C, but a REPL experience that is unrivalled and decades ahead any compiled language.

I decided to go with Common Lisp for its REPL and inside-out development experience, and just hope there's someone that will eventually take Clojure and CL, and fuse the two together.

The more I dive into Lisp and Smalltalk, the more I am convinced we are in the stone age of computing. We have reached the local maximum of UNIX and the basic abstractions over machine code we call compiled languages.