You'd do well to stick with existing syntax conventions. People care about this stuff and introducing changes just because you can seems like a bad idea if you want your language to get wide adoption.<p>So I'd like to see ; be restored as the comment character, to match every other lisp ever written, and you should probably use / for namespacing like in Clojure. The use of / for namespacing is already a well established convention, because we do that all the time on the web.
Why EPL? I use Clojure everyday and I know why it is EPL'd, but I wish it was another license since it's incompatible with the GPL. Couldn't you consider a GPL-friendly license? It sets the tone for the community.
I feel like there should be a way to re-use algorithms and data structures across programming languages and platforms automatically. Sort of like a CLR/JVM etc. but really a common exchange format that could work across different VMs or systems. A little bit like how math can formally describe diverse systems, except you could automatically process/translate this format.