>>28On the subject of accepting off-putting syntax and making good use of everything a language has to offer, why recommend Lisp at all when JS lets you express the same paradigms and has better industry penetration? Sure, the language is a pile of dung and I wouldn't recommend it, but your arguments seem to support it. Obviously something is missing.
My point was CL won't teach you much of anything in particular. Scheme will at least force you to learn some things better because there are fewer ways out.
My answer wasn't BS. I really know all of those languages I mentioned
You said Erlang was an OOP language which is not a thing said by anyone who can tell their head from their ass. I don't think you know more than one or two of those languages very well, if any.