Comment by flavio81

>When Rich Hickey invented Clojure, he kept the gems of the LISP tradition, but jettison much of the muck.

That's the myth that Hickey loves to pass around, but is a totally baseless claim.

>This is why Clojure has first instead of car and rest instead of cdr.

Just as Common Lisp also has "first" and "rest" if one feels like using them instead of "car" and "cdr".