Clojure is far from the whole truth when it comes to Lisp though.
Common Lisp doesn't have as many opinions about your code, includes several nice features that Clojure skipped, and isn't chained to the JVM.
Common Lisp doesn't have as many opinions about your code, includes several nice features that Clojure skipped, and isn't chained to the JVM.
That's true for sure, and I'm sorry if my comment gave that impression, I'm not trying to say that Clojure is the only lisp, or even the best lisp! Just the one that fit me and my problems the best.
> and isn't chained to the JVM.
Neither is Clojure (the language), as it's available with JavaScript as a host (ClojureScript), LLVM (Jank) or even the Erlang VM (Clojerl). I'm sure there are more out there too, but the Clojure-JVM runtime isn't the only one available.
With that said, lots of people say Common Lisp is another good lisp, and been deployed in production for many decades, so I'm sure it's another great choice if anyone wanna get deeper into lisps. I personally haven't taken the time (yet!) to get to know it on any deeper level, so would be weird to recommend it before another lisp I know much better.
Personally, I think it does a few things better than Common Lisp and many Clojurists came from Common Lisp.
Or can you think of any other recent Lisps that have reached similar levels of popularity?
Of course, I'm not claiming Clojure is a subset of Common Lisp, it has a lot of good ideas. But so does Common Lisp.
To paraphrase the late, great President John F Kennedy, "We choose to use emacs not because it is easy but because it is hard. Because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills because that challenge is one we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one we intend to win!"