Scripting vs. Curly Bracket Language

I've been doing a lot of reading lately and yet I am still stumped. In your own opinion, would you say that the best language to learn with is a scripting language or a curly brackets language?

People always say about how simple scripting languages are but at the same time I want to make sure I'm not making some shitty mistakes that'll bite me in the ass when it comes to creating more complex code. Int he same vein, I don't want to start way over my head and regret it later.

I'm not asking which language is best, just what language set I should choose from, whether you chose from that category to start learning or you wish you had.

>>18
If your definition of function means restriction, sure. Otherwise, Lisp is as function as you want - if you don't want to use side-effecting forms, either don't use them, or package them up in a functional-friendly function or macro (or even library). There's also libraries like FSet ( http://common-lisp.net/project/fset/ ) which provide more functional-friendly data structures.
Of course, even if you can almost go purely functional (at least on the surface), it's questionable if such an approach is wise, as it can sometimes complicate certain things and there are significant performance advantages to using mutable hashtables, arrays or even cons cells. The choice is always yours when it comes to choosing your programming style, idiomatic or not for the language.

>>20
Did you mean FrozenVoid? Just kidding, but he or some copy-cat of his are lurking around.