Comment by u89012

I just spent months working on a large piece of software and could say without a doubt, Lisp is awesome! But I also want to say that most implementations are hashing out a spec written decades ago and not trying to improve what's obviously lacking -- a full modern standard library! Trying to piece together functionality from here and there (and Quicklisp which is an unversioned mess) will only take you so far and in the end you will realize the amount of time wasted chasing this great language! AFAIK Lisp needs more backing from the heavyweights to make any reasonable progress which I'm sure won't happen.