This was a nice read! Thanks for sharing OP! Need more of these articles. Practical HOWTOs like this go much further along in convincing people to use Lisp than

This was a nice read! Thanks for sharing OP! Need more of these articles. Practical HOWTOs like this go much further along in convincing people to use Lisp than plain advocacy which more often than not rubs people the wrong away. If there are more articles like this that simply show what can be done and how it can be done there is not going to be a need for advocacy. A good HOWTO is worth a thousand words of advocacy!