I never really accepted the argument that Scheme/Lisp is simpler than a language like Python, simply because everything in the language is reduced to constants/

I never really accepted the argument that Scheme/Lisp is simpler than a language like Python, simply because everything in the language is reduced to constants/terminals (what's the right terminology here?) and functions. Many language differantiate between statement and expression, and compile-time and runtime and lots of other stuff. Saying that we can express C-structs in a language by reducing them to functions is not a simplification, instead I would argue it's worse when trying to grok C. While coming from Python it would be easier since we already have classes, and C-structs are simply compile-time final classes without inheritance. I agree though that learning Scheme can teach a lot, just not necessarily how to grok every other language well.