When I started to learn Lisp, the "Which Lisp?" problem was the first thing to hit me. Same with Scheme. I eventually went with CLISP and PLT (Racket). Issues

When I started to learn Lisp, the "Which Lisp?" problem was the first thing to hit me. Same with Scheme. I eventually went with CLISP and PLT (Racket). Issues like hygiene didn't really bother me too much. As long as you are aware of it its not an issue. While I really like the power of Lisp/Scheme (especially macros), I find that for most programming task Python or Ruby are good enough. There was an interesting post along similar lines 'Why Ruby is an acceptable Lisp'[1]. One thing I am really interested is in seeing how Perl 6 works out. It supports Lisp style macros (by making the parser available to the programmer) while using conventional syntax. While I am a Python fanboy myself I would seriously consider Perl 6 once there is a CPython grade implementation available. [1] http://www.randomhacks.net/articles/2005/12/03/why-ruby-is-an-acceptable-lisp http://www.randomhacks.net/articles/2005/12/03/why-ruby-is-a...