> I remember tinkering with Scheme when I was much less experienced, and getting hung up on the constant recursion and singly-linked nature of the iterables. N

> I remember tinkering with Scheme when I was much less experienced, and getting hung up on the constant recursion and singly-linked nature of the iterables. No one writes code like that in Common Lisp. Both Scheme and CL have more than singly-linked lists, as well. > I've also begun reading - slowly - Let Over Lambda, which has kinda blown my mind. I haven't read that one but I've heard good things. I can personally vouch that Paul Graham's On Lisp is excellent, as a book on macros, Lisp, or just in general. > My colleagues with more Clojure experience strongly advise me to treat macros as black magic that should rarely be used, but my opinion is slowly but surely going the other way. Macros seem like most of the point of using a homoiconic langauge, and to reserve them for edge cases seems unduly conservative. We'll see if that opinion changes as I learn more and begin to use them in my own work. If a function will do, use a function, but macros serve a different purpose. Over time you build up an intuition for which one you need in which situations. > I'm basically looking into the more esoteric languages and design patterns at this point, trying to find concepts that expand my abilities and knowledge. That's a very good strategy :)