Almost forgot, since the purpose of this particular thread is to pretty well ignore Bryce, and just discuss Lisp in general, I thought I'd mention that what I see a lot of in the business today is multi-language solutions. And along those lines, I kind of like the following quote from [link|http://lemonodor.com/archives/2004_03.html|Richard Cook]:

I look at it this way. A lot of the new, interesting software is being written in a combination of two languages; a high-level, dynamically typed language with good built-in data structures and an environment for rapid software development, and a statically typed, heavily optimized language for performance. For a Python programmer, these two languages are Python and C. For the Common Lisp programmer, the two languages are Common Lisp and Common Lisp.