I am a scheme neophyte. In my personal experience it has been a very thought compressible language.

By that, what I mean is this: if you give more thought to a program one tends to be able to say more and more but with less and less, and without making the code incomprehensible or complex.

Interestingly, when I show my code to a scheme veteran, he would often re-write it to make it even shorter and clearer. So I have a long way to go.

So line for line , yes it takes me more time to churn out scheme, but if I give the same amount of time to c++/java it doesnt compress as much. But, and here is the cool part, if it does, I can often trace it back to scheme way of thinking. This has happened a lot when programming with C++/STL.