Exactly the point. In many other languages, every programmer can write their own &quot;even&quot; and &quot;filter&quot; with their own idiosyncrasy. However, in Clojure, every one uses the same set of high level functions in the standard library, because they are sufficiently rich to express most of the programming concepts, without having to roll your own.<p>In Clojure, readability is obtained through standardization. Every Clojure programmer instantly knows what the functions in the standard library do. Because there&#x27;s not much syntax in a Lisp, code is very easy to read once one knows the functions.