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I'm no expert, but it seems like its easier to get started with Clojure than Common Lisp. There are tons of free Clojure resources and tutorials. There is a g

I'm no expert, but it seems like its easier to get started with Clojure than Common Lisp. There are tons of free Clojure resources and tutorials. There is a great IDE that works quite well (LightTable), and the command line tools with Leinengen are pretty sweet too. I realize that you can probably optimize your Lisp code a lot more than you can your Clojure code since Clojure is on the JVM, but right out of the box Clojure performs as well as naive Common Lisp, so its probably a more attractive Lisp for most beginners.

eudox 12y ago
Common Lisp has all those tools, what it does lack is a well-designed website that says "Here's how you start". The closest thing to that is probably the common-lisp.net website, and that's just an unfinished barebones Bootstrap example. I've been meaning to design a better one, but that's going to take some time.
- Blackthorn 12y ago
  A website that both provided a starting off point and a unified reference would be a great improvement to the CL community, on the same level as Quicklisp.