"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.

>>42
So the reason to go bottom up is to have a simple model for reducing/constructing whatever language you want. Which I addressed in >>37, and I don't feel like repeating here.

As for space/time complexity intuitions...  name dropping it and some examples will be enough to achieve that little understanding. It's basically what SICP did, in Scheme.