Lisp

"Lisp is worth learning for the profound enlightenment experience you will have when you finally get it; that experience will make you a better programmer for the rest of your days, even if you never actually use Lisp itself a lot."

— Eric Raymond, "How to Become a Hacker"

Getting Started

Guides

• Lisp Koans: Learn Lisp by completing unit tests
• Practical Common Lisp: Great tutorial/book on Common Lisp

Tools

• Lisp In A Box: Emacs, Lisp, SLIME, all set up for you
• SBCL: Popular implementation of the Common Lisp spec
• SLIME/slimv: Amazing Lisp editor integration (for Emacs/Vim respectively)