I&#x27;ve never quite bought into the lisp idea that maximum &quot;power&quot; or &quot;expressiveness&quot; is always good. I could see it being an advantage for library authors who could present better, safer interfaces to the library&#x27;s functionality. But if you have a startup, how much time do you have to build libraries and refine their interfaces?<p>I doubt that these qualities are <i>so</i> good that they would be a material advantage for application developers. And certainly not material enough that it would affect the outcome of a startup (unless it makes the engineers more motivated).<p>That being said, I hope clojure succeeds, and it&#x27;s on my list to learn sometime (though not in the top 3).