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Common Lisp Implementations – threading and multiplatform?

I’m learning Common Lisp, mostly as a “mind gym” hobby thing, but I want to end up with a set of skills that would also be usable “in real life”, because when you learn a language you also accumulate knowledge about module and package management, deployment and stuff, whether you like it or not, so I want to learn with a CL implementation that is also usable in production. So my question is:

Types in Lisp and Scheme

I see now that Racket has types. At first glance it seems to be almost identical to Haskell typing. But is Lisp’s CLOS covering some of the space Haskell types cover? Creating a very strict Haskell type and an object in any OO language seems vaguely similar. It’s just that I’ve drunk some of the Haskell kool-aid and I’m totally paranoid that if I go down the Lisp road, I’ll be screwed due to dynamic typing.