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I programmed in CL for several years exclusively, and think it's an awesome language. But I also really love Clojure, and think it's the the most beautiful Lisp (or S-expression-oriented language with a read-eval-print loop, if you prefer) I've had the opportunity to explore. To each their own.

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Thank you for an alternative definition. In my opinion adding more data-structures into a Lisp ruins it. It is a List Processing, for John's sake.)

More seriously, having exactly one common data-structure for code and data is what holds everything together, the source of power, compactness, elegance and readability.

A small additional effort, a self-discipline of using lists correctly (remembering the costs) everywhere and using hash-tables and arrays only when absolutely necessary is the way to write decent Lisp code.

In case of Clojure it is just a mess.

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