I love the idea of Lisp, but every time I have a look at CL I feel it needs a fresh reboot without a lot of the... strange, ugly, or opaque stuff I guess. For e

I love the idea of Lisp, but every time I have a look at CL I feel it needs a fresh reboot without a lot of the... strange, ugly, or opaque stuff I guess. For example, some things are in-place, some aren't, and I'm usually running into strange problems that are difficult to debug. Granted, I'm a layman, but it makes learning quite difficult.