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I'm in my nth effort to learn (Common) Lisp, and this is the implementation I've chosen, mostly because its portability (read it as I could run it in Windows, despite not being my preferred environment).

The only thing that may worry me a little at the improbable case of using it for production code is: strings are encoded in UTF-32!! That's 4 times more memory than necessary for my usual use cases...

From my limited experience, Clisp also is a fine option for running on Windows in case you are looking for an alternative.

I just installed Clozure on a new Windows laptop (yes, I know, but it has 4 cores, and was inexpensive). On OS X and Linux I was used to running SBCL (or Franz).

So which came first: Clozure, or Clojure?

A more interesting question than I expected!

Clozure's more or less official announcement was on October 19th, 2007. ( http://article.gmane.org/gmane.lisp.mcl.general/2593 )

Clojure was released on October 17th, 2007. ( http://groups.google.com/group/clojure/msg/16fec21eb1fff8aa )

Of course Clozure is much older if you look at the code and not just the name.

Also the company was called 'Clozure Associates' long before October 19th, 2007.

Clozure Asssociates was founded in 2000.

Clozure CL (formerly OpenMCL)