[hga]

That library couldn't enforce Clojure's functional nature.

CL (Common Lisp) is "multiparadigm", and shows warts going all the way back to the original mainline LISP. I should note that I'm someone who prefers Scheme to mainline LISP, modulo library availability ... which is one place Clojure it really winning, CL is an abject disaster, and Scheme is very very late to the game (still a work in progress last time I checked, R7RS-small being ratified less than 3 months ago).

I also see value in making vectors, maps etc. first class syntactically (although I would have been happier keeping vectors out of special form and function syntax), the collection and sequence unifications, etc. etc.

To finish, Clojure was first released 6 years ago, I'd say it's getting past the experiment stage. E.g. I don't know how you count implementations, but the ones that run on top of the CLR and JavaScript mean something, especially the latter, and what I gather it's bringing to the party.

[kennethtilton]

"CL is an abject disaster"? I need a red card over here.