I'm no CS student, but getting familiar with Lisp was useful for a deeper understanding of a bunch of stuff. I resisted looking into Lisp for a long time becaus

I'm no CS student, but getting familiar with Lisp was useful for a deeper understanding of a bunch of stuff. I resisted looking into Lisp for a long time because of the HN hype. I still don't use Lisp for any real world projects, but it was useful for helping me better understand concepts in other languages, particularly JavaScript and Python. Learning SmallTalk was also helpful with regard to message passing.