I agree wholeheartedly about your #3 (lack of standard implementation). For me, the most insightful line in the OP was: > "I believe that the lisp boom won't c

I agree wholeheartedly about your #3 (lack of standard implementation). For me, the most insightful line in the OP was: > "I believe that the lisp boom won't come before there is a canonic open source implementation and a canonic repository for libraries." I wouldn't argue there should be One Right Way, but it'd be nice if there was a Fairly Standard Way. Even Ruby, which has an official implementation, has several other implementations that exist in parallel, so it's not like picking CLisp or SBCL to be the flagship would doom the others. Power users are still going to appreciate choice, but it'd be nice to have a default that does everything for us noobs.