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Counted the same number of brackets in both Node.JS and Clojure examples.

That may be but it doesn't stop the clojure code looking messy IMHO. Feels less structured (again IMHO)

In my eyes it's more structured, since it's all data structures.

This sounds like:

I don't know how clojure works.

I know how clojure works.

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