sure. when i wrote that i thought it was meant for general public. i also think that its great that the guile community is looking at this. my point wasnt so much as "use my favourite tool" as it was that i just think that a lot of good work has been done in cl and cl is most performant of all lisps. cl already targets assembly and c and has ml-level static typing. the author might find thinlisp [0] interesting