Lisp is still pretty damn practical. I can crank out working code far faster in Scheme than anything else. Because the mental model is so small, you focus more

Lisp is still pretty damn practical. I can crank out working code far faster in Scheme than anything else. Because the mental model is so small, you focus more on your design than on getting it to fit your language. And if you like TCL's command syntax, srfi-49[0], srfi-110[1], and srfi-119[2] all push scheme towards that to varying degrees. 0:http://srfi.schemers.org/srfi-49/srfi-49.html http://srfi.schemers.org/srfi-49/srfi-49.html 1:http://srfi.schemers.org/srfi-110/srfi-110.html http://srfi.schemers.org/srfi-110/srfi-110.html 2:http://srfi.schemers.org/srfi-119/srfi-119.html http://srfi.schemers.org/srfi-119/srfi-119.html