Learn Lisp the Hard Way
"Is Lisp as hard as people say it is?<p>No. Lisp is actually the simplest programming language, and has no syntactic cruft. While it wasn't designed to be “easy to learn” like Swift, Python, Ruby, or Basic, there is less overall to learn and you will be writing real, useful programs in Lisp sooner than you could with other languages."<p>It's like a never-ending stream of lies, every word being a little more absurd than the last...