"A little more than three years ago there was a thread in comp.lang.lisp about what people were working on in Common Lisp. [...] Let's update this. What are you using Common Lisp for in 2008? What are you using to do it? I'll start [...] I primarily use SBCL on Linux, x86 and x86-64, with Emacs and SLIME. For deploying all my website stuff I use Edi-ware extensively: Hunchentoot, HTML-TEMPLATE, and CL-WHO. I use CLSQL for a few things too. For graphics work, I use mostly my own libraries.

How about you? Leave a comment and let me know."

"Dear Lisp hackers,I know that it's a time when everyone is thinking about replacing ASDF, so here's my contribution to this maybe preposterous endeavor. [...] XCVB: an eXtensible Component Verifier and Builder for Lisp.

"I ordered PAIP today. Good computer books are so expensive. It hurts me to spend $80 on a book. But there are many worse ways to spend $80 than on something which contains so much knowledge, I guess. I got a $25 gift card for a book store for Christmas, so may as well put it to good use. I've read good reviews of PAIP, so I hope it lives up to them. I had only one AI course in college, and it was taught in C (ugh) by a grad student, and I learned little to nothing from it. It'll be nice to revisit the subject. (And learn more Common Lisp, of course.) [...] Every request to Hunchentoot is apparently handled in a Lisp thread, so concurrency issues are generally all taken care of for you, no worries.

"Are you an Emacs user but don't know Lisp?

"Antiweb4 is a webserver written in Common Lisp, C, and Perl by Doug Hoyte and Hoytech.

Which seems like an interesting twist to me from all the other Common Lisp web servers already out there..."

"A couple of folks were discussing the need for a Lisp equivalent to Ruby's Ruby Quiz the other day on LispForum [...] Well, I'm pleased to say that yesterday we took the plunge with the first quiz. The challenge is to write a simple algorithm (AI?) for playing Minesweeper..."

"The task here is to explore connecting Lisp to a MySql database. I used synaptic on my Ubuntu system to install mysql-server and cl-sql. A simple database was created on mysql. The aim is to access the database from Lisp: search for entries, get back information, add new entries, etc. ..."

"...Lisp is a list-based language, and although most modern lisps provide some higher level abstraction for structures or records, it is not uncommon to use simple lists and functions to represent them.

"...It appears from the outside that Lisp, as a language, has the power to equal or better Ruby. But Ruby, when combined with Rails, puts you so far ahead of the game that it doesn't matter. That balance may change if the Lisp community builds their own Rails-style library, and for the sake of competition challenging everyone to get better, I hope they do..."