That was 2 years ago, this it TODAY. The situation has changed. I am unfit to teach Dan Weinreb about Lisp, but let me silence others who are ready to jump on

That was 2 years ago, this it TODAY. The situation has changed. I am unfit to teach Dan Weinreb about Lisp, but let me silence others who are ready to jump on the Lisp wah-mobile. http://www.cliki.net/index http://www.cliki.net/index --- Streams (user defined) Gray Streams, simple streams. Threads and locking Bordeaux Threads Modern networking: e.g. sockets, TCP and HTTP client and server, URL’s, email, etc. Usocket, iolib, hunchentoot, drakma, puri, and Melbase. Web Services (WSDL etc.) Friends don't let friends use big-W Web Services. Use s-xml-rpc, cxml-rpc, cl-json-rpc or yason-rpc. Relational database access CLSQL, Postmodern, CL-RDBMS, PlainODBC. Persistence (Lisp-friendly) CLSQL, Postmodern, Elephant, CL-STORE, CL-SERIALIZE, ManarDB, Rucksack, Cl-Perec, Cl-Prevalence. Meta-object protocol for CLOS CloserMOP. System definition facility ASDF, or wait for Fare's XCVB. Other general-purpose access to the operating system’s facilities CFFI, Osicat, Iolib. XML CXML. Math Define "math". Graphics Define "graphics"; hint: everything from CL-OPENGL for realtime 3D graphics to Skippy, for generating GIF, to gordon and cl-flash for generating SWF/Flash files, to CL-PDF for generating PDF, and Lispbuilder-SDL. GUI frameworks, platform-independent CLIM is our standardized GUI but I use lambda-gtk to build Win32 and Linux GUIs with CLISP, Lispworks and SBCL. Failing that, there is LTK. Text manipulation Define "text manipulation". High-performance (asynchronous) I/O Iolib. Access to printers CFFI is your friend here. There is no portable implementation of the Lisp Machine HARDCOPY-FILE, but this is not stopping anyone from printing from Lisp. LispWorks has a print-command special variable. Internationalization Internationalization is a process, not a tool. I write "arabic" code in Lisp. Unicode strings Natively supported by all major Lisps now. CLISP, SBCL, CMUCL, Franz, LispWorks, and Closure. Generating HTML CL-WHO, HTML-TEMPLATE; there are pretty much as many HTML generating things in Lisp as there are Lispers doing web applications. Everyone wrote one, but CL-WHO is the best, imo. X Window System You said "GUI" above, and a few times you hinted at portability. Anyway. Every Unix Lisp supports CLX. There is Portable-CLX if you want to play with it. A whole X window manager was written in Lisp, stumpwm. Foreign function interface CFFI. Regular expressions CL-PPCRE.