i am new to lisp in general and common lisp in particular. i will tell you the key reason why i will take my time to promote it on hn. for years i had large mis

i am new to lisp in general and common lisp in particular. i will tell you the key reason why i will take my time to promote it on hn. for years i had large misconceptions about lisp: it is slow (in my case for numerical work), it is an academic language, the syntax is ugly unnatural and annoying. it was only by chance that i was (quite happily) proven completely wrong. so my rationale is that if there are people who are like i was then i will be happy to provide information about common lisp and perhaps something useful might come out of it