Scheme is the new BASIC

Uncanny similarities:
1.Targeted at beginners.
2.Minimalist instruction set.
3.Used as educational language.
4.Hides complexity of underlying system.
5.Incapable of attracting serious developers.

Scheme is a Lisp, the best Lisp. Without Scheme, Common Lisp wouldn't even have lexical scope and be dead by now.
Schemers innovate, Common Lispniks disguise their lacking understanding of language design as ``worse is better'' or ``organic''. Schemers create language improvements like proper tail calls, lexically scoped macros and reifiable continuations, CLers rehash their poorly thought out features.

Where CL claims to be a Lisp because it adopts historical mistakes, Scheme is a Lisp because it has been continuously ahead of its time and always will be.