[rmckayfleming]

I know. I've been spending a lot of time with CL, Scheme, and Clojure the past few years, and the ideal Lisp is some combination of them all. There are aspects of each that I miss in the others. CL has the nicest environment and development story (generally speaking). Scheme feels more refined in the small. And although they can be divisive, I really appreciate Clojure's data structure literals.

[rmckayfleming]

CL is the x86 of the Lisps. Successful because of backwards compatibility, but also ugly because of it.