The LISP + functional mind-set is not easy to get used to when you come from non-functional (specially bad is OOP), verbose, syntactically complex programming l

The LISP + functional mind-set is not easy to get used to when you come from non-functional (specially bad is OOP), verbose, syntactically complex programming languages (e.g. C, C++, Java, C#...). I think you should focus on learning to think the functional way. Then LISPs will reveal all their power through simplicity. That's how it worked with me at least ;)