I'm glad Jasko made it easy for Cusp users to make executables, but I found his characterization of newbie interactions pretty insulting. I like to help people with Lisp stuff, and the conversation usually goes like this:

Q: "Does Lisp have a compiler?"

A: "Yes, you can use COMPILE or COMPILE-FILE..."

Q: "Awesome!" time passes "Wait, what I really want is something else..."

"Wait, what I really want is something else..." A: "Ok, you can do that with save-lisp-and-die, or cl-launch, and commercial Lisps make it pretty easy too..."

Q: "Cool, I'll check it out" or "If there isn't something exactly like gcc for Lisp, Lisp sucks!"

"If there isn't something exactly like gcc for Lisp, Lisp sucks!" A: "Glad to help!" or "You can still get stuff done even without a single-file executable" or "Whatever, dude."