> Actually, in my opinion, Scheme (and Lisp) allows you to express complex systems and problem domains in more simple terms than any other language can.
I disagree with this. Lisps are procedural languages like most other programming languages. They can describe procedures in a relatively simple manner (big asterisk on that one, the simplicity of Lisp as a language is greatly overstated and conflated with the simplicity of s-expressions), but procedures aren't really good at expressing complex systems or problem domains. In my experience, relational languages like Prolog are vastly better at this. Lisps are much easier for the average programmer to pick up and write reasonably performant code with, though.
I disagree with this. Lisps are procedural languages like most other programming languages. They can describe procedures in a relatively simple manner (big asterisk on that one, the simplicity of Lisp as a language is greatly overstated and conflated with the simplicity of s-expressions), but procedures aren't really good at expressing complex systems or problem domains. In my experience, relational languages like Prolog are vastly better at this. Lisps are much easier for the average programmer to pick up and write reasonably performant code with, though.