I learned I lean toward being a purist.

I learned that uniformity in good (by uniformity I mean the everything is a list feature).

I also learned that if you are mildly obsessive compulsive, (counting) the brackets will drive you crazy, and you will just give up.

Which led me to learn that if a language achieve type uniformity without syntax uniformity, it will be awesome, it will have all the goodness of lisp but with more forgiving syntax