Thanks for your comment. I will take a look at the book you recommend. To be honest, it has been a while since I was an undergraduate! On a related note - how

Thanks for your comment. I will take a look at the book you recommend. To be honest, it has been a while since I was an undergraduate! On a related note - how easy is it to transition from having first learnt how to program in Lisp (or a functional language) to programming in Java or C++? I have seen lots of blog posts about doing it the other way around (Java to Lisp). I would imagine that also requires a cognitive leap ..