Rich Hickey on Clojure

To be honest this is the first time I don't really find anything super interesting or at least good enough to make a comment about it. Nonetheless given that I do have to do it irregardless of my opinion here it is. I think this podcast wasn't quite as interesting as the rest of the things we've read or heard is because it is kinda getting old: the "LISP (and by extension Clojure) is so much better than any other language in the world" speech is just the same as in all other assignments we've had. The problem is, in my opinion, that we haven't reached yet the ability in Clojure to at least verify the things that we keep reading about. To this point Clojure just feels like a really uninteresting language that has a really ugly and unwieldy syntax, I would even say that there are a bunch of languages out there that would render the problems we've had to deal with trivial, and Clojure has just made it much more complicated. To me it still doesn't feel like an elegant or even average language, it just makes problems harder. Having to keep this weird structures and behaviors in mind just to use it. I do hope we get to a point where I find something great about Clojure because I find it interesting how a lot of people think it is great bu it just hasn't happened. I find myself doubting that anyone could use it for anything useful because I feel it kinda blocks me from expressing my thoughts in an acceptable manner even more so if we take into account the efficiency of things which I've learnt to seek always due to ACM ICPC. In short I'm just hoping this pays off in a meaningful way.