Is clojure (lisp in JVM) next big thing?
drcode: The reason Clojure is successful right now IMHO is because:    1. It isn't afraid to revisit the basic design tenets of Common Lisp and Scheme
    2. It has reasonably useful libraries (both through the JVM and written in native Clojure)

No other Lisp dialect has done this recently. My point is that its success doesn't have much to do, from what I can tell, with the actual design of the language. Clojure does fix annoyances in CL and Scheme (low hanging fruit) but I personally still prefer other modern dialects, like arc, in terms of basic language design.The reason arc is crashing and burning right now is that it doesn't address #2 at all. Plus, arc is suffering from an absentee benevolent dictator.