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>Pity he hadn't heard of Armed Bear Common Lisp (http://abcl.org/), which runs on the JVM.

First public release of ABCL seems to be after first release of clojure.

Was it? Ward's Wiki indicates someone was using it in 2004: http://wiki.c2.com/?ArmedBearCommonLisp (as an aside: why is JavaScript required now?), while Clojure dates back to 2007.

> (as an aside: why is JavaScript required now?)

Because it was "improved" (rebuilt) recently.

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