common lisp is bad

common lisp is a bad language, the people that use it are assholes and have taken ownership of the word "lisp". people who might have got interested in better lisps have been pushed away by them.

Common Lisp is a horrible language. It's made more horrible by the fact that a lot of substandard programmers use it, to the point where it's much much easier to generate total and utter crap with it. Quite frankly, even if the choice of Scheme were to do *nothing* but keep the Common Lisp programmers out, that in itself would be a huge reason to use Scheme.