CL does have some weird stuff, after all it's coming from the 1960's LISP tradition. But after you get past some basic weird stuff, it's a quite wonderful langu

CL does have some weird stuff, after all it's coming from the 1960's LISP tradition. But after you get past some basic weird stuff, it's a quite wonderful language. > I can only speak for myself, but I definitely reason about code outside in rather than inside out. You can indent code to make it much easier to "parse", and use some macros that turn the code inside/out, it's more readable than most other languages. The CL cookbook is an excellent resource, and this page links to several other excellent resources and books you can read for free online: https://lispcookbook.github.io/cl-cookbook/ https://lispcookbook.github.io/cl-cookbook/ The "new docs" also present the documentation in a "modern" looking way (rather than the 90's looks of what you get if you Google around): https://lisp-docs.github.io/cl-language-reference/ https://lisp-docs.github.io/cl-language-reference/ About other Lisps... The Racket Guide is definitely not "bone-dry": https://docs.racket-lang.org/guide/intro.html https://docs.racket-lang.org/guide/intro.html It is well written and looks very beautiful to me. On another Scheme, I find Guile docs also great: https://www.gnu.org/software/guile/manual/html_node/index.html https://www.gnu.org/software/guile/manual/html_node/index.ht... They may be a bit more "dry" but they're to the point and very readable! In fact, I think Lisp languages tend to have great documentation. The guy who wrote is an excellent writer (he has written Racket books which are equally great) and I believe is the author of the Racket docs tool!