>Unfortunately, however, doing basic I/O, networking (this is around 2006) and testing was too complicated for me It is trivial today. Many good libraries for

>Unfortunately, however, doing basic I/O, networking (this is around 2006) and testing was too complicated for me It is trivial today. Many good libraries for networking, web servers, JSON, serialization, etc, etc. Many excellent Common Lisp implementations as well, some of them being very fast. >any pointers on the best way to learn/start? Read Practical Common Lisp, install "Portacle" (the Portable Common Lisp Environment) and be happy!