There was a good thread last week about learning Lisp: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=125766 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=125766 http://news.ycomb

There was a good thread last week about learning Lisp: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=125766 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=125766 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=126186 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=126186 (a child comment on that thread that summed up a lot of the ideas).