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'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).
If you learn Lisp (not LISP :) you will become a better programmer overall. If you are in university, I believe it would be a good investment of your time.

There is a lot of movement in Lisp lately (Clojure, etc...). Maybe it might be used more in commercial in future. I hope so. Lisp is fun!