"This turns Clojure into a scripting language much like Python, Ruby, Perl, or Bash" would be if you added a sleep(45) to the beginning of every script you wrote with them. All the latency of a compiled language with all the bugs of dynamic one. :)
I'm (mostly) kidding...
I want to like clojure. I've always had a soft spot in my heart for lisp, and clojure seems to be the best contender for hitting the right balance between the classic "no syntax at all, just more parens" and various more modern takes on "It's lisp, but with our own weird syntax bits layered on." Unfortunately the JVM'ness of it has shown through so much as to kind of turn me off. (Not least of all the overhead of starting a JVM to do anything.)
I'm (mostly) kidding...
I want to like clojure. I've always had a soft spot in my heart for lisp, and clojure seems to be the best contender for hitting the right balance between the classic "no syntax at all, just more parens" and various more modern takes on "It's lisp, but with our own weird syntax bits layered on." Unfortunately the JVM'ness of it has shown through so much as to kind of turn me off. (Not least of all the overhead of starting a JVM to do anything.)