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I'm about to start a small hobby web project. What Lisp platform would you recommend? I'm somewhat scared of stories like Reddit's - Lisp being a great language, but implementations having problems with Unicode, threads, networking, scaling, price, etc.

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Hunchentoot (http://weitz.de/hunchentoot) on SBCL (http://sbcl.org). It works. 100% free.

I remember your comments from some time ago, where you described Mathematica as a good Lisp-like language with good development tools. I am also curious about Mathematica. Have you changed your mind? Why?

Excellent question.

See this thread on my site, the story of how I kicked the Mathematica habit:

http://www.loper-os.org/?p=42&cpage=1#comment-2746

Amazing insight, thanks.

Thanks a lot, I'll give them a try.

What tool do people use to write Lisp Web code? Is it GNU Emacs or something else? How compatible are Emacs List and SBCL?

Emacs with SLIME (http://common-lisp.net/project/slime).

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