Well, it's amazing for rapid prototyping. The same could be said for Ruby/Perl etc but the addition of the REPL, CLOS, Macros, etc make it slightly better. As l

Well, it's amazing for rapid prototyping. The same could be said for Ruby/Perl etc but the addition of the REPL, CLOS, Macros, etc make it slightly better. As long as the libraries exist for CL upon which to build, which can be a sticking point. To give the more canonical answer, though... CL is the programmable programming language, so it's not suited for a task per se; rather you lay down a base that's suited to your problem domain, and then you solve your problem in your newly-created "language". It's hard to explain but true if you get it right.