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The Landscape of Lisp
mily of programming languages with a long, rich and oftentimes confusing tradition. Unware of it at the time, in 1960 John McCarthy published a paper that over the next 64 years would spawn a thousand dialects and a number of very good ideas.
It almost guarantees that as long as you can overcome the (relatively) small barriers of the paren-heavy syntax and prefix notation that there will be a dialect and community that closely mirrors your philosophy on software development. Not to leave on a sour note, Lisp also attracts some of the most thoughtful and intelligent people whose willingness to openly share their knowledge has changed me for the better. Due to this complexity and the challenges the R7RS-large working group have faced when reaching agreement, it's not unusual to see expressed the feeling that Scheme as a standard is dying.
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