The title is a little misleading since some lisp systems are easer to install than others. I had mzscheme on my osx 10.5 powerbook working in 10 minutes when pg released Arc.
I agree, some lisps are easier to install than others. But if you're a noob, how do you know which one to choose?
yeah mzscheme is super simple to install on osx. I had similar results to the poster with clisp though. It was the reason I pretty much gave up on common lisp. I could install it and get slime working up on XP no problem, but getting anything to work on osx was difficult. This was a long time ago too and I was running 10.3, so maybe things have changed by now. I haven't tried installing any common lisp system since I've upgraded to 10.5.