Someone made a terrific comment in response to Ron Garret's post earlier: the way you get productive in today's environment is primarily through libraries.
I think that was me. FWIW, I find CL's libraries to be adequate in many cases, but certainly not as good as Perl's.
(I have done a few Java projects, and I don't consider their libraries adequate at all. You are either stuck with full-stack frameworks, or a legacy API from 1995. I've also found that most Java programmers that write libraries don't know what OO is, and that makes the libraries painful to use. YMMV.
Slime is also vastly easier to use than Eclipse, even with "emacs emulation" turned on. Again, YMMV. :)
I think that was me. FWIW, I find CL's libraries to be adequate in many cases, but certainly not as good as Perl's.
(I have done a few Java projects, and I don't consider their libraries adequate at all. You are either stuck with full-stack frameworks, or a legacy API from 1995. I've also found that most Java programmers that write libraries don't know what OO is, and that makes the libraries painful to use. YMMV.
Slime is also vastly easier to use than Eclipse, even with "emacs emulation" turned on. Again, YMMV. :)