I don't think it's the lists. I think it's the cons cells. Lists are pretty ergonomic in most languages. As someone who loves Lisp (Scheme, specifically), cons

I don't think it's the lists. I think it's the cons cells. Lists are pretty ergonomic in most languages. As someone who loves Lisp (Scheme, specifically), cons cells are elegant for the compiler nerds and a complete nightmare for the programmer. Fuck `car`, `cdr`, `cdar`, `cddar`, `caar`, etc.. It's a horrible interface and every time I need to remember which variant gets me the value stored at the tail of a list I get a little more angry and want to write more Clojure and less Scheme.