I am in Amsterdam for the ECLM 2011 and I must say that I have a distinctive feeling that the CL world is somehow doing very well. The meeting (as many of the readers know) is by invitation and the people presenting are from actual companies. The presentations have given me a sense of solidity of the companies represented, which, in the very words of the people presenting their work, is a reflection of the goodness of the choices made both of "problem" and "technologies": Common Lisp always being in key nodes of the implementation.
Many thanks to Edi Weitz and Arthur Lemmens for organizing the meeting.
(cheers)