Why Racket? Why Lisp? (2014)
It's about a month since I've started seriously diving into lisp.The last couple of weeks I've spent my days reading 'The joy of Clojure', Structure and Interpretation of Computer programs, lots of tutorials and documentation, playing around in the repl + experimenting with all kinds of frameworks and libs in clojure (eg. Om).I've spent today implementing the brainfuck interpreter in Racket.I can't explain it, it's like something is calling me - 'learn lisp. now.'.Given the amount of Lisp code read/written and the relative novelty of it, I'm dreaming lisp code and the arguments to functions are actual physical things, which are then mapped, reduced, recursed or expanded.Literally, I think I'm going crazy.I can fluently write x-platform C++, Javascript/CoffeeScript, Objective-C, Java, Pascal, VB and everything in between.But never have I experienced this kind of mental strain/obsession as I do now with lisp.But.Seems like I'm not alone! Given the amount of lisp news lately on HN, 
I fell like more and more people are going through what I'm going.Seems like we here on HN follow a common mental pattern and suddenly everyone's talking/learning lisp.As interesting as learning lisp is, this 'group preference' thing is even more interesting to observe.