[richardgreeko27]

I think had I started with a lisp dialect like Racket and the book The Little Schemer, the speed of getting through those first exercises may have been just as fast or faster than the Ruby and JavaScript I started with.

Lisps are hard to switch to but I disagree that they're hard to start with.

[harry8]

Scheme is not common lisp.

But you know where you place it on the list. I did sicp w/ racket, a 10 y.o. I know tried simply scheme w/ racket. I'd put it next to anything on the jvm (including clojure) myself. The 10 y.o. puts it way behind python & swift.