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: 
I believe there is a lot of value in LISP and currently we see a kind of Lisp renaissance, with new languages like clojure. Even Python and Ruby are very lispy under the skin.

Also the concepts learned in LISP often transfer over to other languages and will make you a better developer whatever language you use on the day job.
### It has no commercial future but learn it anyway

You aren't fully educated in computer science until you know Lisp.

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If Lisp was going to catch on it would have done so, you know, in the last 50 years or so. You can disregard the people saying that Lisp implementation #127 is going to finally catch on.

Still, it is so unique and powerful that it should be well worth your time to understand it.