Craig,

<opinion>
Lisp has been around for (at least) forty years ...
it's the "assembly language" of the functional programming
arena.
</opinion>

If you really want to "look into the face of God" check out
a modern functional programming language: Haskell.  See

    http://www.haskell.org

There are some excellent tutorials available at this site.
Free (as in beer) Haskell compilers for Linux are available
as well.

Fritz

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> Two quick points:
>
> 1) I'm a west-sider:  The Blender presentation and the location both
> look great.  I'm out of town on the 27th but am looking forward to
> future meetings.
>
> 2) I want to learn Lisp and seek the enlightenment of "functional
> programming."  I tried before, but bounced off.  This is just for my
> own personal education.
>
> These articles have gotten me re-fired up.
>
> http://www.defmacro.org/ramblings/fp.html
> http://www.defmacro.org/ramblings/lisp.html
>
> Has anyone on this list been to the mountaintop and been permanently
> transformed by Lisp?  Any advice for a re-learner like me, as to
> books, classes, resources?  I can't go take a class at MIT -- I have
> to do it here.  :-)
>
> Craig
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