[chriszhang]

I came here to say the same thing. A lot of the discussion with modern languages focus around syntax. Why not use a Lisp which has very minimal syntax and focus on solving problems instead?

Do you have an opinion about Common Lisp? I know that Scheme is more minimal and cleaner but since you recommend Scheme I want to know what your opinion about Common Lisp is.

[pjmlp]

Not the OP, Common Lisp relates to the genesis of IDEs alongside Smalltalk, as such it has a very good developer experience, alongside native compilation, which can only be fully appreciated when using the surviving commercial offerings.

[retrac]

Yes, I answered the question from a very different angle (Pascal or Lua) but my motivation was also avoiding the learner from drowning in syntactic details. Scheme would be even better than that.