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I wanted to learn a LISP-like language and tried Chicken for a bit and then switched to Racket. Reason: Documentation. I constantly got stuck with Chicken, often because the documentation available is for a previous version. No such problems with Racket and their, imho, excellent guide.

No doubt Chicken is a great language with cool features, it's just not very beginner friendly.

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The documentation for eggs of the previous version has a link at the very top to the latest version.

For other cases, please consider letting us know exactly where you got stuck on IRC or on the mailinglist. Without feedback we can't fix things! The community is very friendly to beginners, even if the documentation isn't.

This I have also found to be the case, though ultimately I also focused more on learning Racket because, coming from Python, I was used to a more "batteries included" experience.

I really like Chicken but I switched for similar reasons. Also, some of the eggs I wanted to use won't work on my system. Still I think Chicken is really rad and I'd use it again.

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