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by firepoet 4902 days ago
Just a curiosity -- why do you call Clojure a "half-Lisp?"
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Not me, but I would guess it's because, while both Common Lisp (ie. SBCL) and Clojure are both Lisp-like languages per se, Clojure departs further from "pure" Lisp than Common Lisp, in that it replaces lists with things such as vectors in a lot of places (see defn syntax).
It could also be that it is hosted on the JVM.