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lisp is much more regular in syntax than most popular languages, and Xah's page that you point to amounts to little more than saying "I don't know lisp well, so I find various aspects of the language - backquote, quote, unquote-splicing, etc. - confusing."

If you have issues related to the syntax uniformity of certain Lisp dialects, please speak for yourself rather then linking to that troll Xah Lee.

Xah Lee recommends that developers subjugate themselves to Wolfram Research which controls the proprietary program Mathematica.

Even though some Lisp dialects have a couple of quoting operators like ' and ` at least they don't have infix operators like + and * that Mathematica has. Besides, a few quote operators is no basis to say that Lisp syntax is "not very regular."

One of Clojure's goals is to interop well with its host platform, which it does in both cases. I'm not sure I'd count that trade off as a wart.