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Clojure if you need to build anything serious. You can't beat its approach to concurrency, easy access to a multitude of Java libraries and the stability and maturity of the JVM as a platform.

Scheme if you want to learn a Lisp and then move on.

I wouldn't suggest Common Lisp (although it pains me to say that, as I've spent a lot of time building webapps with it). It is neither easy to learn nor easy to deploy and maintain in production.

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> Clojure if you need to build anything serious.

Could you please link to some web apps built in Clojure? I really wanted to use Clojure for web development, but because I couldn't find many existing projects, I kind of concluded that if you really need to build anything serious you should be using Rails.

There are not alot jet but consider that clojure is pretty young but there are great projects on the way. There are some pretty new ideas how to do webdev. Intressting times.

the-deadline.appspot.com/ is one example I know off. I know off some other but I don't have the links. A lot of people build front ends in ruby but backends in clojure (the flightcaster system for example).

In Clojure we don't have the all powerful big framework. Witch makes it hard to overlook but very dynamic.

http://www.glenstampoultzis.net/blog/clojure-web-infrastruct...

I don't know — but we use it in our startup for a REST-style API and it works great for us.

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