Question: I know this is not a very technical question, but it's for all technical people, that's why I ask it here. Here is my question:

Can someone help me understand the current and future of learning LISP? One of my papers in university uses LISP for a project (it's a big project - may be two semester long), and I am not able to decide whether I should put lots of effort into learning LISP if there is no future in LISP, or should I just learn as much as needed for the assignments and do some other project which doesn't need any LISP. I know a little bit of basic LISP. Please help me.

Answer: 
Lisp is one of those languages that really changes the way you think about programming. If by value you mean marketability, it has very little value. If you mean value as in what it gives you as a developer, I would say that it is quite a bit higher.
Lisp's been cooking along for over 50 years. If it was going to die it would have died a long time ago.

Modern languages are *still* catching up to Lisp.

"It's not dead, it just smells funny" as someone once said (only my Google-fu fails in finding a citation).