I really appreciate narcissism and arrogance of Rich - he spent these two years (or whatever the legend says) writing Clojure 1.0 before made it public and this is what arrogance is for.
Nevertheless, even an ordinary CS student would notice, that there is literally nothing extraordinary in Clojure which was not being researched and implemented in other languages, like Erlang, Scheme (that subset of it which does not include set-car! and set-cdr!) SML and, obviously, Common Lisp. The systematizing effort and ability to deliver are exceptional.
So, I am sorry, but I am not buying these marketing slogans, because I know on which principles it has been made.
Nevertheless, even an ordinary CS student would notice, that there is literally nothing extraordinary in Clojure which was not being researched and implemented in other languages, like Erlang, Scheme (that subset of it which does not include set-car! and set-cdr!) SML and, obviously, Common Lisp. The systematizing effort and ability to deliver are exceptional.
So, I am sorry, but I am not buying these marketing slogans, because I know on which principles it has been made.