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 wanna get started using a language. Any. A good functional language. but why use it, and why not use C++?
Beginning to program functionally helps you to avoid some of the most common beginners mistakes like writing lightyears-long spaghetti programs with no functions. It forces you think in terms of abstraction and separating large problems into smaller parts. These are necessary skills for any programmer. Of course you can learn these in any language, but functional programming makes them obvious and natural from the beginning.

icba reading SICP unless it's really worth it.
It really, really is worth it. Read it. I suggest that you start by watching the video lectures, though.