Having started with C at college and then moving onto Common Lisp on my own was a massive headscratch when I first started. I abandoned lisp after that. Common Lisp has tagbody and go of course ... but there is so much shame around it. Why ?

How did people learn sh, perl, ruby, python ? By writing dumb imperative scripts of course! Why the shame ?

Even from a cursory glance Hylang has more libraries than all the lisps combined. FACT. I think it fits perfectly for scripting tasks and for a change its easier for beginners to get started with. ipdb works with hylang folks!

I had to google it. Remember Liskell ? The Lisp that mapped onto Haskell ? I think Hylang and Sibilant should be treated as minimal lisps along the same lines. As compared to Common Lisp .. Hylang is worse and that can only be a good thing.