I really think if you plan on programming for more than a year, the learning curve for Scheme or CL is worth it. I was at the jQuery conference this past weeke

I really think if you plan on programming for more than a year, the learning curve for Scheme or CL is worth it. I was at the jQuery conference this past weekend, and a lot of the functional programming concepts would be way easier for people to understand if people saw them in Scheme first.