what to study next?

dear programmers:

would it be harmful or dumb to learn functional programming before any other paradigm, such as imperative, or object-oriented? i took one course in college intro c++ and want to move forward now, so i'm thinking either object-oriented and moving to data structures (berkeley cs dept available free on their site), or functional programming w scala (coursera) next.

thoughts?

>>7
Scheme is lisp and SICP does not teach you a programming language

Your advice that he learn Python is malicious and evil
I agree but what if he saw this: http://wingolog.org/archives/2009/03/24/international-lisp-conference-day-two