> Anyway, i know this is HN i'm asking, but can you give me at least one compelling reason why I should study lisp,scheme or clojure ? In Common Lisp: * (

> Anyway, i know this is HN i'm asking, but can you give me at least one compelling reason why I should study lisp,scheme or clojure ? In Common Lisp: * (eql 'i 'I) T In Clojure: user=> (= '(lisp,scheme or clojure ?) '(lisp, scheme, or clojure ?)) true Downvotes accepted for the grammar snark, I only mean it as a light ribbing (and casual warning that programmers looking at resumes are often, probably unfairly, going to penalize such mistakes more harshly than they reward complex side projects). More seriously: do you like programming? And furthermore, are you interested in studying programming itself, not (just) programming as a means to other things? Are you perhaps interested in studying CS itself, not just exam material of whatever collection of courses that grants you a CS degree? If no, then you probably won't be compelled by any one reason to study anything beyond that which might let you get a well-paying programming job (perhaps as a gateway to getting a management job in tech), and lisp is not such a necessity. Nothing wrong with that, but inspect your motives carefully and plan accordingly. If yes to any of those, studying new languages will be rewarding, and lisps have a lot to offer. For instance, if you studied Common Lisp, you would have an environment suitable for practical programming of applications in any domain, you would not want for language features either because Lisp supported them anywhere from recently to 50+ years ago (realize it took until Java 8 for Java to get anonymous functions, and even then you're better served by SICP to learn tasteful application of programming with them, just as you're better served by Clojure to learn tasteful application of immutable data structures) or you can add them yourself without awaiting a new version, you would have a language good for researching CS topics such as new languages (and compilers), data structures, garbage collectors, type systems, theorem provers, AI, etc., and you might save future-you some hours or anxiety when it comes to "unrelenting, constant learning" because you can frame this week's fad into concepts you already know from Lisp. Maybe the most compelling reason to study though is that of there not being a better time. If you are so curious, just go study already! And if several hours of study makes you lose interest, or decide it's all fluff evangelized by lisp zealots not worth pursuing further, then go ahead and study something else that interests you. But the time is now. Post-college, you'll likely have less opportunity, less desire, and less time to satisfy your curiosities, so indulge while you can. And since this is HN, a recent pg twitter thread to contemplate: https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1274632047303315456 https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1274632047303315456