Another rescued Quora answer to the question : What is the future of the LISP programming language?
I’m writing this answer as an unabashed Clojure fanboi.
The second of these advantages is syntax for data-structures.
(defn f [x y]
(the int
(+ x y)))
That’s it. You’ve typed the expression (+ x y) as having to return an int. (That’s what (the int sexp) does. )