Common lisp is bloated

I'm not a lisper myself, but I thought i should ask you. I have just read the wikipedia article on Common Lisp that describes lots of features. Particularly, the inclusion of an ENTERPRISE object-oriented paradigm and some macro syntax that looks like valid perl code.

So, is ((SCHEME)) better?

Not sure what you're asking, but Scheme is an academic toy language, so no it is not better than CL. At least CL is trying to be somewhat useful for doing real work (solving the 8 queens problem or writing recursive fibonacci is not real work.)