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For me, it's the opposite, I like Lisp and Scheme because they don't force me into one programming paradigm. I'm not very fond of FP but used OOP almost in every project when I was programming in Racket (for a decade or so). I often wrote more functional code first and then wrapped it into classes to "assemble" it under one roof.

Lisp and Scheme are great languages for object-oriented programming.

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My comments where not at all to make a statement about FP vs OOP, for me they both have their place, and I agree that Lisps are great OOP languages. It just turned out for me that FP came more naturally as a new programmer, and learning about the subtleties of lambda the ultimate, lexical scope and state from an FP perspective helped me to finally feel like I grok OOP. I was pleasantly surprised to see someone else express a similar sentiment.

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