> you really can’t do FP without automatic currying and the function composition and application operators (. And $) in Haskell

But lambdas are enough to define these operators e.g.

    (defn comp [f g] (fn [x] (f (g x)))
    (defn ap [f x] (f x))

Operators and currying by default can use useful but it's a syntactic issue rather than a fundamental one.