Lisp is not just some implementation, it is a well-balanced set of ideas and trade-offs, which together produced a natural programming language with several dialects.
Clojure, on the other hand, is just an implementation of a bunch of features.
All I'm trying to say is that Lisp is incomparable more harmonized and much more elegant creation that Clojure, which compared to Scheme or Arc, is, excuse me, an ugliness.)
Engineering a platform or product is seldom a pretty business. Ask the Yesod folks. It's only recently that anything like Conduits with Conduit's performance is finally finding "good" and well-researched alternatives.
Not that your complaint is incorrect, it's just sort of difficult to actually use this as the basis for an argument against Clojure because everyone has already made their peace with this. It is not a "pretty" lisp; it's a natural response to the question, "How can I keep working with the JVM and leverage JVM libraries without devolving into the 1990's Taligent style verbosity that is modern Java?"
Clojure, on the other hand, is just an implementation of a bunch of features.
All I'm trying to say is that Lisp is incomparable more harmonized and much more elegant creation that Clojure, which compared to Scheme or Arc, is, excuse me, an ugliness.)