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There seems to be a lot of people even some intelligent ones who are lately talking about and exploring clojure, a new lisp dialect run in JVM. It looks really promising, but a lot of people especially lisp programmers have an inherent hatred in java. How is that? what do you think about this ``lisp in JVM''? Is the clojure the future of lisp?

I know Lisp is interpreted (and this is one of its greatest advantages with its eval loop and all it brings), but is there any tool to compile Lisp code? Or to translate it into C++ code to be compiled with a C++ compiler?

What are your thoughts on no namespaces in Lisp? Most languages that I like and use have packages, and I feel that helps organize the code. Does lisp have something like that? It doesn't appear that it does, how do you deal with that?

Are there any books / links available on algorithms in lisp ? or scheme.

Update : Sorry, Its not the book, Looks like the authors thesis submission.

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I think Scheme doesn't have the all-powerful Macros, so would one be missing out on all the LISP goodness for choosing Scheme?

How usable are Macros, anyway? Does their use tend to produce readable code?

If I want to use Lisp syntax to store tree-like data structures (as a replacement for XML), are there any libraries, standards, or just ideas how to do it?

Just starting to learn Common Lisp. Got the gigamonkeys book. Any recommendations for some good CL-related blogs to read?

I have been an OO programmer for a few years now, and I have not done much functional programming. I have an interest in flight simulators, and am curious about Lisp. Flight simulators or any other real world simulator makes sense to me in an object-oriented paradigm. Does anyone have any thoughts on coding a flight simulator in lisp or any functional language?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M-expression

if i understand it right M-expressions would make it possible to have a LISP without parenthesis?

well what a lot of people love about LISP is macros and that code is data and data is code.

if someone rewrote LISP to have "normal" syntax and notation could you write

  defun sq(x)
      x*x

or somehing along those lines?

would that then make it very hard to do macros and do write programs that write programs?