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I'm in the exact same boat, and am going to put off even investigating Qi properly until I've done a few mini-projects in common-or-garden CL first

Hi, have you looked at Qi? It has a static typing system (and has some nice features like pattern matching).

Why not just rename this thread to "Introduce yourself!" or something and sticky it?

As a question, has this ever been done well automatically with today's compiler technology? People always cite functional programming as being beneficial for auto-parallelizing, and in theory they're quite right, but does any current compiler actually do this well today? GHC with Haskell, maybe? :?...

Nice to see so many optimisations.

Does it happen with other weird 'virtual' mounted files - i.e. in /dev, /proc?

I don't know the answer to your question, but I'm impressed by your diligence in making this work with CLisp

I'm going to take this one on in slow-time, since it seems like just the right kind of mini-project to help me learn Lisp. I'd expect a simple heuristic mind would do quite well though without needing clever AI, at least in small, finite Minesweeper worlds.

I'm surprised to see no mention of Successful Lisp here. I finished most of Practical Common Lisp, but found it somewhat hard going. Perhaps too much exposure and too much detail before I was ready and I wasn't doing much practical work. I paused at Chapter 24 and decided to go back to basics, which...

I realize there are various things I could do like make the ball a global variable or make the move-ball method accept a game object. However is there something equivalent to ball.parent.score? This isn't really possible... when you say 'parent', I think you just mean 'client' - by using the ball, ...