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Nice web site! I have been using Common Lisp since 1983 when I updated my Xerox 1108 Lisp Nachine.

In the last 35 years I have probably only averaged using Commin Lisp for about 10% of my development but still love the language.

One problem the Lisp world has is too many fine implementations of dialects of different Lisp languages. I find it impossible to not experiment with most of them.

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What insights do you gain by experimenting with different implementations of Common Lisp? Can you share some of those insights or things you learnt by experimenting with different implementations of Common Lisp?

I don’t have much to say about different versions of Common Lisp. I have mostly been using SBCL for years, except sometime switching to Clozure for faster compilation.

I experiment more with different versions of Scheme: Gambit, Chez, and Guile. I really like the Racket ecosystem - a lot of good work is done around Racket. I don;t much use Clozure (except for my hobby site cookingspace.com) unless I am using it because that is what a customer uses.

Church, for Probabilistic programming is interesting but it was apparently been supplanted by WebPPL(which is not a Lisp).

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