Good point about the age of the page. From what I've observed, things have changed a bit in the last ten years or so, no argument there. "Learn You A Haskell"

Good point about the age of the page. From what I've observed, things have changed a bit in the last ten years or so, no argument there. "Learn You A Haskell" is very good, and I haven't seen anything like it for Common Lisp. However, Peter Seibel's "Practical Common Lisp" is quite close in terms of target audience, and also very good. I won't argue with the assertion that Common Lisp is hard to learn. PCL, pg's "ANSI Common Lisp" and "On Lisp", and "Let Over Lambda" that I've mentioned are a good start, but it can be difficult to get from the text book knowledge to good, practical, useful programs. That said, I don't think that it's the fault of Common Lisp. C is easy to learn because it is small, but it is also C. (I'm programming C and Ruby in my day job, and I love C, but there are times when I wish it had more of the expressive and abstractive power of Ruby or Common Lisp.) Common Lisp is hard to learn, but once you've learned it you get to program in Common Lisp. Regarding LOOP: some people consider integral calculus difficult to learn. Does that mean we should excise it from mathematics, or at least not let high school students know about it? LOOP is part of the standard, so it's not going away any time soon.