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Is Clojure closer to Scheme or Common Lisp from a beginner's perspective?
Clojure is a Lisp dialect that runs on the JVM.
Is Clojure considered Lispy or Schemey?
I mean is it like Lisp or like Scheme?
If by “Lispy” you mean “like Common Lisp,” then…
Clojure is “Lispy” because it has full (nonhygienic) macros and doesn’t guarantee tail-call optimization (except with
recur).Clojure is “Schemey” because it has a single namespace for both functions and values (it is a Lisp-1).