And the Clojure example makes me say "aaah the ambiguity!" The key/value pairs makes much more sense to me when they are delimited as such. It's a minor point, anyhow. Clojure is just fine. I just don't think that it is significantly less verbose than Scheme. Let's just keep hacking with Lisps and be happy. :)
It's dramatically less verbose when you are dealing with code that uses associative data structures, both because of having nicer literal syntax and because the data structures can be applied directly without needing to reach for things like hash-ref. (Which makes a boatload of sense, because immutable hash maps actually have more in common with mathematical functions than Scheme procedures do.) In addition, functional nested updates are very verbose in Scheme.
However, both of these problems can be solved in Racket by third-party libraries.
