>>15
SBCL's memory usage 2 years ago (when I last attempted to use it for web development) was terrible because it used too much memory. "Hello World" was 50MB, and a web application used a lot more. Nobody wants to deploy a web application like that, for something that is negligible even with Ruby. To be fair, I hate the JVM for the same reason.
It's nice that you think it's standard behavior, but Lispworks has something called a "tree shaker" which removes redundant crap from the image which greatly reduces this problem. At some point people do want to deploy the application, which SBCL was really bad at doing the last time I checked.
>>16
Pretty much. I actually like Lisp because it does feel really nice and logical when designing programs, but I find the community around the dialects frustrating and closed-minded. "Too smart to fix it" gets kind of old. If you really feel that way about the outside world, stop advocating it and talking about it and write Lisp in a cave, and stop bitching that the rest of the world doesn't write in Lisp. That said, I don't give a shit about programming these days anyway. There are too many retards and the bad ideas are too strong to be fought.