Strongly agree. There's more stuff in Common Lisp, but once I learned the concepts behind how the naming worked, a lot of them didn't need to be learned as muc

Strongly agree. There's more stuff in Common Lisp, but once I learned the concepts behind how the naming worked, a lot of them didn't need to be learned as much as I just assumed they were there. The "standard library" is large, but really well thought out. Writing in Scheme, I'd often need to implement functions that I knew were already in CL, so Scheme ends up being more work in the long run. And it's not like a person needs to memorize all of the language constructs before using it. The REPL in Slime is incredibly helpful in discovering functions and verifying how they work, and Stack Overflow or web search can be really helpful finding out if a particular function is built-in or not.