I personally found clojure to be the most enticing lisp, and the only one I've gotten off the ground with. Enticing because it does web apps so well, which mak

I personally found clojure to be the most enticing lisp, and the only one I've gotten off the ground with. Enticing because it does web apps so well, which makes it practical (in my mind) and gives that sense of accomplishment. That said, there are some crazy advanced things you can do in lisps, and I'm sure I've only scratched the surface. But that scratch was deep enough to build things that are useful. Another interesting thing is that some people's clojure code is very readable and understandable to me, like James Reeves' (weavejester) code. Other people's code is very difficult for me, David Nolen's for example (swannodette). Not saying one is better than the others, more of having a familiar way tackling a problem in code I suspect. I can't say I ever had an A HA! moment with lisp like some famous people have described, but I can say that I am a better programmer for having gone down that road. I didn't realize it had had any positive impact on my understanding until recently when I decided to give Haskell another try. Lo and behold, I am actually understanding it now (via learn you a haskell), and I'm struggling to understand what was so hard about it before. I can't say exactly what changed, but something did. I can't say it was because I specifically learned a lisp, it might have been just as true if I had learned OCaml or some other language. But I am suspicious that it was because it was a lisp. I can say this, I have had an A HA! moment with Haskell. It was more of a Holy Sh*t moment for me actually. And that was when I got to the quicksort example in Learn You a Haskell. I was stunned.