This is really, really cool for packaging apps up for distribution to non-lisp nerds. Requiring people to install Quicklisp to load an app isn't <i>the end of the world</i> but still a chore for people who don't live in a REPL.<p>I'm really happy with how much progress Common Lisp has made since I started programming in it (around 4-5 years now I think). Implementations have all kind of agreed on the lowest common denominator of essential non-standard features: FFI, threading, sockets, etc.<p>It's still kind of a fringe language, but as a user, I am happy it's making so much progress.<p>Thanks for the work on Quicklisp, Zach =].
I wonder if there are any success stories of promoting CL at work in companies that had no previous experience with it, but encourage experimenting and new technologies?
That is a good idea! I have it on my schedule to bring out a newer edition of my "Loving Lisp..." book in the next year, and I think I will use this to package the examples, even though installing Quicklisp should be something that any CL developer should do anyway.