Comment by chaoky

This. Arguing that Common Lisp sucks because the names of functions are not sufficiently python/C/Algol-like is like arguing Chinese languages are never going to become widely accepted because they aren't sufficiently like European languages. People who argue against car/cdr are the same people who will blindly accept printf, strlen, scanf (wtf?), __le__, zip. They accept those names because they actually learned the language and discovered those were trivial details and don't judge something so superficially. (also, ~95% of common lisp names are more like with-open-file, or define-setf-expansion, or make-load-form, or most-positive-float, or standard-input, instead of, what mkStr, <stdin>, isalnum, fprintf, ? :, and the like)