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This is somewhat irrational critique, clojure was an opportunity to start fresh and graft a concurrency-focused lisp onto a pervasive runtime, not to reimplement ABCL. It fills a need.

I was always somewhat halfway interested in learning common lisp, but when clojure came along I actually got excited enough to do something about it.

You even say you're 'very happy' to be working in it, but I think 'an experiment in STM' is too reductionist and shallow to address the numerous use-cases that are improved by persistent data structures and the other features that clojure provides.