Lisp is a historical programming language created in 1958 by John McCarthy. It is a descendant of the programming language Scheme. Lisp is a symbol-manipulating language that uses symbols to represent data and code.

Clojure is a modern programming language created in 2007 by Rich Hickey. It is a dialect of the programming language Lisp. Clojure is a compiled language, which is converted into machine code before it is executed.