[Zak]

I'm inclined to agree for a few reasons other than the usual things people cite about Clojure. These are the first to come to mind:

* The property list pattern and inheritance-like behavior are very natural and convenient with maps and records. I think that sort of thing is very helpful with large applications.

* Clojure has the ability to abstract the database (I'm thinking of Korma here) in a way that preserves and works with the relational model more directly than ORM.

Clojure's ability to leverage Java libraries also means you're unlikely to ever get stuck implementing common functionality from scratch[0] when another language would have a library.

[0] I did, however once write a CSV library for Clojure because it seemed easier than using an existing Java library for the subset of functionality I needed or writing a wrapper.