It sounds like you are trying to do two separate things: 1. Learn Lisp, and 2. create a web app startup. Both are very worthy goals, but I don't know if using

It sounds like you are trying to do two separate things: 1. Learn Lisp, and 2. create a web app startup. Both are very worthy goals, but I don't know if using Lisp, Haskell or erlang to write a web app is really a great idea right now. (Sorry PG). I think that is was true that writing web apps in Lisp probably gave you a huge leg up against the competitors in the mid 90's. I don't really know if that's the case now. Languages like Python and Ruby have tons of libraries, frameworks and documentation that really help you get productive making web apps. That's a huge plus in my book. Then again, maybe you're interested in rolling your own libraries and framework ala arc. If that's your thing go for it. I'm sure you'll learn a lot along the way.