[xsltuser2010]

When I last tried Lisp (SBCL) i was surprised how hard it is to find standard, common sense 'batteries' as you would in python, and how hard it is to get things going if you're not experienced. I think the point where I jumped out of the boat was trying out 'Hunchentoot' or something like that (webserver).

I haven't seen that with Python, Ruby, C++, Java, even Haskell feels 'modern' in that way. Why must it be so hard to get simple stuff going ?

(Note: I like function programming concepts, but I would expect a programming language to be easier to bind into a context of reality.)

[dons]

> standard, common sense 'batteries' ... even Haskell feels 'modern' in that way

Glad you noticed! We've been working hard on this: http://haskell.org/platform