Responses to common criticisms of Lisp languages?

https://racket.discourse.group/t/responses-to-common-criticisms-of-lisp-languages/1986 · Just prefacing this by saying that my goal with this post isn't to incite a flame war or be rude: I'm a beginner to Lisps who has a soft spot for them. I learned to code with SICP, and shortly after I somehow stumbled upon Dybvig's beautiful book on the Scheme programming language, and eventually Essentials of Programming Languages by Friedman & Wand. I attribute my success today as a self-taught engineer to having been exposed to these texts, all of which use Scheme as a didactic language. Also...