historical mistakes (regarding CL) is only an opinion, not a fact.
For many aspects it's a huge advantage of CL to not having continuously evolve into something slightly different and only opinionatedly better.
I know both Scheme and CL, and I'll continue to prefer CL for at least the next decade coming, I think.
Meantime, I like all the effort anybody is putting in any kind of Lisp, and I always follow the different attempts (the different Schemes, Arc, Clojure).
No I think Common Lisp does have more mistakes than Scheme. But I should have said, "Scheme isn't as laden with mistakes..." And that's partly because most of the current Scheme standard was evolved after the Common Lisp standard was set.
Agreed on your last point, and I recommend trying Clojure out for some little project. It might surprise you how much more succinct it is than Common Lisp. Arc too, from what I've heard.
For many aspects it's a huge advantage of CL to not having continuously evolve into something slightly different and only opinionatedly better.
I know both Scheme and CL, and I'll continue to prefer CL for at least the next decade coming, I think.
Meantime, I like all the effort anybody is putting in any kind of Lisp, and I always follow the different attempts (the different Schemes, Arc, Clojure).