languages

despite starting to learn c++. I'm having doubts.
I could go and look on wikipedia for hours about programming languages, but having not done much in any language. It's all shit to me. I don't understand it.
So.
If any anon is kinda enough.
I wanna get started using a language. Any. A good functional language.
but why use it, and why not use C++? I hear alot about lisp.
icba reading SICP unless it's really worth it.

Big post. Expecting tl;dr from trolls.

Cheers /prog/

I would seriously recommend Python. Work through the Dive Into Python book at http://www.diveintopython.org/, and then when you're comfortable with that, read SICP and do some of the exercises.