We might want to change what we call them, if we want them treated as something other than "Ivory"

Don't, you may catch something. RSI appears to be going around.

Are we doing the flame war thing on Friday night? I mean if we are, I'm up for it. Are we?

I use Spacemacs, so does that mean I'm safe? :)

Lol using Emacs doesn't mean you'll have to hit a lot of Ctrl. It allows you to customize everything then obviously Evil is the sensible way to go.

sbcl is fast, and can be really fast. Especially compared to the other cl implementations.

Commercial Lisps are better? As in faster? Do you have any supporting evidence of this? Having used Lispworks and Allegro I can't see where this is coming from.

fpm would solve their "packages are hard" problem. Additionally, when the upgrade path is "curl|bash" that is poorly thought out.If "curl|bash" installed the package repository, and then used the local package system to install, then that would be better.