"first"

fun "first" language to learn.

I say first because I took C++ in highschool and enjoyed it, and I wanted to try common lisp but I'm not certain if its supposed to be a joke or not.

any help would be nice.

I am a grad student with access to hundreds of desktop computers (though Condor / cloud, whatever the fuck). If I wanted the speed, I could easily just use a distributed system instead of fucking around in C/C++ and wasting my time learning how the memory system of my particular computer works.