I'd say it's closer to Clojure than others lisps, but there are still some differences. For example, no keywords (:foo, :bar, etc.) and lists are not functions

I'd say it's closer to Clojure than others lisps, but there are still some differences. For example, no keywords (:foo, :bar, etc.) and lists are not functions of their members. This can get a little confusing with Pharen's array access syntax: (:some-list 1) Here, some-list is just a variable while the : prefix tells Pharen that you are trying to index into it.