Well, the speed concerns I am worried about are for my server.
I agree that Lisp as the scripting language might not be the best choice. Well, technically it might be (especially if the server was written in lisp) but on a pragmatic level, I'm sure that the language and it's syntax would scare off several builders. If that turned out to be true I could always write some bindings for Lua (what I am using w/ the current incarnation of the server).
Anyhow, I'm not trying to evangelize Lisp (I don't know enough about it to act as a Lisp crusader or anything), but I just get the impression that your idea of what Lisp is and what it is capable of is a decade or two out of date. I mean, if it was complete garbage, I doubt they'd have used it to implement the underlying searching for Orbitz or have used it for the Yahoo Store.
I agree that Lisp as the scripting language might not be the best choice. Well, technically it might be (especially if the server was written in lisp) but on a pragmatic level, I'm sure that the language and it's syntax would scare off several builders. If that turned out to be true I could always write some bindings for Lua (what I am using w/ the current incarnation of the server).
Anyhow, I'm not trying to evangelize Lisp (I don't know enough about it to act as a Lisp crusader or anything), but I just get the impression that your idea of what Lisp is and what it is capable of is a decade or two out of date. I mean, if it was complete garbage, I doubt they'd have used it to implement the underlying searching for Orbitz or have used it for the Yahoo Store.