I am just now getting into Lisp so I can't say how learning it would affect subsequent language exploration. Functional programming is good but if it's the most

I am just now getting into Lisp so I can't say how learning it would affect subsequent language exploration. Functional programming is good but if it's the most interesting part of any language, that would be a boring language. Erlang's functional style and pattern matching syntax were novel but the immutable bindings, process spawning, and message passing made it interesting to me. In Lisp, I am interested in S-expressions and macros (and wishing it had those other Erlangly bits I mentioned!).