[rosejn]

Go for Clojure. It's a modernized common-lisp with access to the wealth of Java libraries. There are resources online, and you should be able to get up and running in a matter of minutes.

[alextp]

I love clojure, but to be fair it took me a lot longer than that to get up and running, specially considering that I had no idea where to put the dependencies and how to compile things.

[silentbicycle]

Would Clojure be worth trying rather than CL or Scheme for someone who doesn't have any Java experience, though?

[swannodette]

With Clojure 1.2.0 and the build tools Leiningen or Cake you can get very far along w/o needing to know much about Java.

[silentbicycle]

Thanks for the meaningful response. I know CL (sbcl . clisp) and Scheme (Chicken . Scheme48), but haven't done much with the JVM and I've been uncertain what relevance Clojure has.