Modern, functional Common Lisp: myths and best practices
This doesn't scratch my itch at all. I love Lisp but boring old Python has the libraries I need.<p>EDIT: Based on a comment and downvote I suppose I didn't make my point clear above. <i>I am saying that myths are not the only thing holding Lisp back.</i> (I may be wrong. I <i>hope</i> I'm wrong. Big thank-you to people who are linking ways to get libraries in Lisp, especially Python libraries.)<p>I care 10x as much about libraries as about all these red herrings (EDIT: or myths, as you like) combined: 
" * Common Lisp does not have compile-time type checking.
* Common Lisp is for imperative, object-oriented programming.
* Common Lisp is too specialized, it’s not for general-purpose development.
* Common Lisp applications are hard to deploy. "