>>jashke+(OP)
Yeah, Rich is obviously right. Concerning Clojure, or any Lisp variant for that matter, I came to realize that the cost of the unusual prefix notation -- which does cause inconvenience to people trained on using infix -- needs to be offset by the usefulness of defmacro, i.e. the possibility of using macros. Paul Graham insists that it is surely worth it, but unfortunately, he does not show convincing examples. So, I keep sitting on the fence. I am ready to be convinced, though, with compelling examples of a problem that I cannot possibly solve with defun and for which I would need defmacro.