Learn both, you will eventually. Most Lispers know CL and Scheme, and most are competent in other languages as well. I would say devour everything you can lay

Learn both, you will eventually. Most Lispers know CL and Scheme, and most are competent in other languages as well. I would say devour everything you can lay your hands on; you wont be able to do much in computing unless you're competent in at least 4-6 languages, with a read-only knowledge of another 10 or so. It's not languages that matter (usually) rather the computing models, development styles, and programming paradigms: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_programming_paradigms http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_programming_parad...