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by capableweb 1119 days ago
Clojure is a language created and "controlled" by a single author (pretty unified overall) as a general purpose language, with implementations for multiple languages.

Emacs Lisp (elisp) is a language specifically created as a scripting language for an editor, maintained by an organization, with one compiler (AFAIK) and 99% of usage is within Emacs.

It's not hard to imagine people preferring Clojure before elisp, especially outside of Emacs.

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To be honest, I would prefer Clojure to Elisp too.

But to be frank, it's hard for me to imagine people preferring Vim over anything that isn't ed ;). Although, at least using ed you don't need to type the colons :)