going back and trying to write Common Lisp really makes me appreciate how simplified Clojure made a lot of things

like, with-slots, destructuring-bind, multiple-value-bind, let, and let* in Common Lisp all can be handled with Clojure's let macro

heck, Clojure vectors basically remove half of the reasons why you'd ever want to quasiquote (especially outside of a macro)

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