You could use Lisp in a batch style. I would then propose to use a compiler-based implementation like SBCL, since the compiler gives a lot of feedback. That can

You could use Lisp in a batch style. I would then propose to use a compiler-based implementation like SBCL, since the compiler gives a lot of feedback. That can help in batch programming -> write code, compile it, run it -> with the added error messages from the compiler or the runtime. Some people program Lisp with very primitive editors, but they better use the Read Eval Print Loop for interactive programming, too. That would be different from the usual C, C++, ... Java programming. You would need to understand interactive programming. That's a level one needs to master - especially in many situations (and where one does not use SBCL) the dynamic typing of much of Lisp requires interactive exploration/debugging.