I think a lot of people in this thread are being absolutely ridiculous. It's not easy to implement channels in Lisp because of Lisp, it's because the work is al

I think a lot of people in this thread are being absolutely ridiculous. It's not easy to implement channels in Lisp because of Lisp, it's because the work is already done for you. What mainstream language doesn't have structs, condition variables, locks, threads and... Wait, I think that was all of it? Oh, and linked lists. I mean come on, you could do this just as easily in Java. And all this talk of the Lisp curse, Jesus Christ. I mean, there's a point in that there are a lot of lackluster libs (but what language doesn't have that), but Quicklisp and a switch in Lisp culture means that there's a large amount of collaboration (and usage of libs) between programmers. There's the potential to start to use the same libraries and a will in the community to do so.