I find it hard to agree with this post. If you are willing to work 40 hrs a week you will receive 40hr/week pay from your employer. If you dont commit (via http://news.ycombinator.com posts) SOMEONE ELSE WILL. Do not fool yourself out of a startup salary, and learn Lisp! (if you have the time!) (There are shortcuts to learning Lisp, but all of these shortcuts are not worth the saved time you spent learning Lisp) (Even if its a dead language, you learned it) (Peace)
The point you miss is that I enjoy a UI [0]. UI is the object that liberates the command line soul. You are missing the point in implementing a "No UI" environment. Minimal shell environment are required for any computational operating system [1].
I applaud your efforts. Truth is you will be back here in less than 48 hours, if it is longer it is because you took breaks from creating your to do list app in lisp. Good night sir!