You might be interested in a 1987 article titled "A Critique of Abelson and Sussman or Why Calculating is Better than Scheming" (https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/24697.24706), where the author advocates the use of KRC or Miranda as alternatives to Scheme. I don't know much about KRC, but Miranda is a statically-typed functional programming language that influenced Haskell.