> In any case, a "not-java" language that can talk java is freakin amazing, in my book (Scala doesn't scratch my itch there - it's far too clever - had enough of that with perl back in the day).

Clojure is a bunch simpler than Scala, many Python programmers are quick to pick it up. The dynamic nature and interactive prompt is all there.

If you look at Norvig's Python-Lisp comparison table at http://norvig.com/python-lisp.html - all the red cells (where Lisp lost to Python) are fixed in Clojure.