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Not trying to thread dump, but I see more practicality from learning Clojure. You'll get a wealth of libraries and an active community to help you on your journey.

That said, if you want to learn CL for fun, that is understandable (heck, I did it myself after doing elisp years ago in grad school). I recommend 'Land Of Lisp' as a fun way to learn CL.

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I find common lisp to be plenty practical, its libraries mostly satisfactory(restas/cl-redis/cl-closure-template make a good combo for playing with web development), and its community's frankness and no bullshit attitude are rather refreshing after spending some time in the land of the cool kids. Also these lists of success stories contain some impressive shit:

http://www.franz.com/success/ http://www.lispworks.com/success-stories/ http://wiki.alu.org/Industry%20Application

PS Land of lisp is an awesome book.

Also I'd recommend 'Practical Common Lisp'. It is very well written and goes straight to bread and butter topics like file i/o and web programming.

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