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> this should not actually reflect poorly on Clojure as a language.

Why not? If a language's goal is to be practical (as is Clojure's), then it should take practical concerns into consideration. This is something that the Java community definitely gets right.

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>Why not?

Because someone who has never heard of map/reduce/filter/partial will need to do some studying to leverage the spine of the language in order to make living, breathing code-organisms.

God forbid someone would have to learn how to use map, reduce and filter - 3 functions present in Ruby, Python, Javascript, PHP, Erlang, Scala and many others.

Incredibly useful functions! Although, not common knowledge.

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