Recently a co-worker (Aaron) started learning a bit about Lisp. After a little sales pitch, I decided it might be fun to learn Lisp as well, afterall I've heard people talk lovingly about it a few times.

It's interesting to read about a language that has been around since the 50/60's that has many of the language features that we're just now getting in C#. Over the years I've had a lot of people recommend learning a functional language like Lisp, Scheme, or Smalltalk but I've never taken their advice. While I'm not sure I'll ever code anything of substance in Lisp it has been interesting to learn about the language, as well as it's history.

Lately, I've been working my way through Practical Common Lisp, which is published by Apress. In addition to being available via Amazon and other online retailers, the book is available for free online at: http://www.gigamonkeys.com/book/.

I haven't decided on a language for 2008, perhaps because I feel like I have a ways to go still with my language for 2007, Ruby. Anyhow, I'm pretty sure I'm going with something functional, perhaps Lisp...or F#?