I believe SICP has much culture but not always so great style. I'm not "learning lisp".
Who are you to know of all lisp learners ? Why are you associating lisp with functional programming ? CL in itself is not really functional, but being a metalanguage you can make it so. You could also make it sort perforated cards. Is it a perforated cards programming language ? Lisp is not important, the way we can program it is important, and it just comes from its syntax. Lisp machines are long dead, there are excellent compilers available for more current archs. Looks to me like you are still "learning lisp". -- Thomas de Grivel http://b.lowh.net/billitch/