I put my hand on my heart and tell you, after programming for 15 years in C and C++ on windows and linux, I am happy to throw it away after seeing how much bett

I put my hand on my heart and tell you, after programming for 15 years in C and C++ on windows and linux, I am happy to throw it away after seeing how much better the same things can be done in 'lispy' languages [scheme, clojure, ruby] Have a look at PGs 'on-lisp', 'the little schemer', the SICP book + video lectures, or 'practical common lisp' - they have example after example - finding fixed points, data query language, numerical approximations, symbolic algebra, pattern matching, logic languages, momoizing all expressed very clearly. An excellent article you might enjoy is 'Functional Programming for the Rest of Us' : http://www.defmacro.org/ramblings/fp.html http://www.defmacro.org/ramblings/fp.html [by a YC alumni, Slava]