Lisp started in 1958. Popular Lisps in the 60s&#x2F;70s were Lisp 1.5, Lisp 1.6, Interlisp, Maclisp and Standard Lisp.<p>Scheme grew out of research from 75-80 (the Lambda Papers), investigating Actors and bringing ALGOL and Lisp together.<p>Thus Scheme is the newer language.<p>&gt;it&#x27;s more representative of Lisps-of-Old than Common Lisp.<p>Common Lisp contains a direct core of the original McCarthy Lisp. One can develop in Common Lisp in the typical styles of the 60s and 70s. With PROGs and GOTOs, symbols and property lists, dynamic binding, procedural macros, ...<p>Scheme was different: it introduced a more functional style, lexical scope, closures built-in, away from symbols and dynamic binding, ..., continuations, hygienic macros, TCO (recursion instead of direct iteration constructs), ... for some years people tried to bridge the gap (for example by providing a Scheme in Common Lisp, by reusing the concepts or by writing to a compatibility layer), but nowadays there is very little sharing.