[Sbcl-help] Lisp Newbie

[XenWryla L. <xe...@le...>]

Hello lispers,

For something like a year now my realtionship with lisp has been like
the relationship the loser flunkie from across the tracks has with the
prom queen.  From afar I have read nearly everything from
Parenthetically Speaking, most of Paul Graham's articles, and lots of
other stuff.

The funny thing is that I haven't sought this relationship, functional
programming in general and lisp specifically have been insidiously
inserting themselves into my brain.  I read the above articles
folloing chains of recommendations and links and one day noticed that
I was reading all this stuff either about lisp or by lispers.

So I am a self-taught zoper and pythoner these days.  I have studied a
few lisp tutorials as far as I realistically can without having an
itch to scratch to drive me further.  Now I have an itch to scratch,
it is a web app that I have been wanting to make for sometime.  I
believe a functional language would be well suited to it and lisp is
my choice.  I'm getting tired of some of the failings in zope and so
would like to take this as an opportunity to get over the hump with
lisp.

My question is this, what is going to be the easiest way to get up and
running doing web programming in lisp so that my learning curve is as
flat as possible?  What existing frameworks can anyone recommend?
Libraries?  Lisp-CGI stuff?  Stand alone lisp web server?  Persistence
in lisp?  My goal at this point is to start with a setup that will get
me seeing the results of my initial forays sooner rather than later.
Once I'm up to speed, then I can learn more powerful setups that might
have a steeper learning curve.

Thanks,
Alex