Depends on what you want it to do. Do you want to learn LISP or do you want newLISP to do a particular task? As a scripting language it does it's job very nice.

Depends on what you want it to do. Do you want to learn LISP or do you want newLISP to do a particular task? As a scripting language it does it's job very nice. I first started to use it when I needed a small, but flexible language that worked well on Windows. newLISP does the job just right. A nice feature is the ability to compile a newLISP script to a standalone executable that does not require a newLISP interpreter. I hacked together a quick and dirsty script that my colleages at work like a lot - a script that cleans up crap in their windows profile directory. :-) I have no experience with other LISPs though, and thus am not competent to say whether newLISP is a "true" LISP. To me that really does not matter - as long as the tool does the job. Good luck.