Comment by bitwize

Clojure has neither the cool constructs of CL (CLOS, conditions) nor the minimal design and fantastic set of control primitives of Scheme. In fact it has no significant advantage over Scheme aside from running on the JVM, and a few disadvantages (recur, why TF are lambda lists vectors?, etc.). It's different enough to be weird and annoying, but the differences aren't advantageous enough to make me want to switch: Scheme (and CL!) has been made to run efficiently on the JVM (with some caveats, which Clojure has also!).