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The whole point of lisp is competing with 500 programmers blub programmers with 5 lisp programmers.

I wouldn't measure Clojure's success with those kind of numbers. The number of applications running Clojure code would come close to a real metric.

The whole point of Java and Python is to provide VPs with massive departments to bloat their egos with head counts. Clojure or Lisp don't aim for such goals.

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I find it odd to see Java and Python lumped together. The companies I've seen using those respective languages (by job listings) seem to be quite different. I'm a Python developer and I've only ever worked in small, fast moving teams (biggest team I've worked in had 4 developers).

You must not be in SF or NYC. Python and Ruby (and even Node, to an extent) have supplanted Java as the language of fungible mass-market headcount du jour.

I am in Germany, here they have hardly supplanted anything, specially when one actually cares about performance.

You're right, I'm in neither of those places. Where I'm at, there's C#/.NET or Java, and then there's everything else.

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