sbryant

Let me rephrase the question. Why do you believe you have to roll your own frameworks for everything?

I just presented you with a couple of frameworks geared towards web development. There are NoSQL solutions as well. Couch, Mongo, Redis whatever. Writing your own bindings shouldn't be too difficult either.

RDBMS - CLSQL it does everything. NoSQL - Whatever you want. Cl-mongo exists. There's even CLOS object stores for when you really want object persistence. REST - This isn't really a language thing. Web- UnCommon Web, Huchentoot, Weblocks. You can even write your javascript in parenscript and be lisp all the way down.

If you want to know how LISP can do all of this and more please read Practical Common Lisp. http://www.gigamonkeys.com/book/

Just keep in mind that the book is a few years old now.

I would also like to ask why you think it's not possible to do any of the things you've asked of in any language?