Why do people use

/prog/ramming languages other than C, LISP, and PERL for anything?

Personally, I find if quite denigrating to the craft of /prog/ramming.

>>45

Then why does Wikipedia say Clojure is a Lisp dialect?

Because Wikipedia can say whatever the hell it wants, and it's basically Clojure's own main claim.

Besides, a dialect of a language can be completely ununderstandable to a speaker of the main language. The term "dialect" can have the same connotation here.