Common Lisp is terrible. Terrible programming language. I don't care if its functional and dynamically typed, its libraries suck and its symbol/package system is a huge pain in the ass to work with.
I understand that its typically used from a lisp top level environment, but no one in the real world uses programs like that. No real programs require you to modify your runtime's initialization configs/scripts. No real programs require you to run them from within a toplevel or require the source/object files to be loaded in the correct order by you (or some script).
Maybe I'm wrong, maybe real world programs do require all that. Maybe thats what deployment means in web applications *shudder*.
Dependencies in Lisp seem to be a nightmare. Building a self contained executable seems impossible, and building an executable that works with multiple modules and packages seems not to work at all. The best I can come up with is not using packages at all. Essentially all our sources will be concatenated together into one big source file. Awful. Just awful.
I'm going to leave it at that for now. There isn't any more time available to spend on figuring out how to do this right. Next step, command line arguments.
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