Comment by technomancy

> If you are right, Clojure should end up "more powerful" than Scala but having (relative to Scala) this "problems which are technical issues in Scala are social issues in Clojure" dynamic.

Part of that is because Clojure isn't starting from scratch when it comes to conventions; there are strong admonitions as far as avoiding side-effects, favoring composable functions over macros, and re-using functionality from the JVM where appropriate.