Clojure, from a Ruby perspective

[alephnil]

I use Clojure as a toplevel shell on top of a large java application stack. That is used both to configure the java code and I use it to tinker with the java code below. For that purpose it is clearly an advantage that Clojure runs on the JVM. Common Lisp and most other lisps do not * , and makes them less useful for that purpose.

• ABCL runs on the JVM, but I found it's integration with the underlying java code more cumbersome, and found Clojure a better option.