Agreed. The comment I replied to was (at the time) disputing Zygomys's status as a lisp; it's since been changed to questioning Zygomys's claim to be a Clojure-equivalent, which I quite agree with.

Perhaps a better analogy would be Groovy, rather than Clojure? (Of course, Groovy isn't "cool" these days, so I guess there's not much marketing juice in comparing your new language to it...)

> Groovy isn't "cool" these days, so I guess there's not much marketing juice in comparing your new language to it

I think of Apache Groovy as being to the JVM what bash is to Linux. You could compare it to bash.

Well, at one time it aimed to be quite a bit more. As I recall there was a lot of envy of dynamic language in general and Ruby in particular when Groovy first got popular.

There was even a Groovy on Rails framework, just to make the longing more obvious. From memory, Groovy only reinvented itself as a scripting language some years later.