Great to see Zach getting some airtime. He's done a wonderful thing for Common Lisp users everywhere. Quicklisp's simplicity of use is deceptive. There were

Great to see Zach getting some airtime. He's done a wonderful thing for Common Lisp users everywhere. Quicklisp's simplicity of use is deceptive. There were at least two previous attempts to create a "CPAN for Common Lisp" -- I'm thinking of ASDF-Install and Daniel Herring's LibCL, and I think there were more I've forgotten -- but none of them were as painless as Quicklisp.