Common Lisp is too hard.

I still can't get my head around prefix notation. I heard Scheme is easier though. Seriously, why do practitioners of Lisp-like languages claim it's so good? I honestly cannot see the big deal, it's an old, slow, awkward and overall clunky language to use.

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How about giving arguments other then "lol read sicp." Explain, what's so good about CLisp/Scheme? If it's so good, why aren't more projects written in it? Today, it's all Java, C++, C, or one of the .NET languages. As far as I know, people only use the Lisp-like languages for small, shell-type tasks / cgi scripts, and even then there are far more suitable languages available (Python, Perl, etc.)