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Clojure has a chance to become a major language among those who do not fear parentheses.

Lisp in any form will never be mainstream. That doesn't mean that Clojure can't establish a survivable niche for itself but it will never be as popular as Ruby or Python, never mind Java.

I also think that fear of parentheses will remain mainstream.

Yes, Indeed.

This is a very sad commentary on humanity.

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