Common Lisp is a beautiful language, and an extremely useful one. If someone wanted to implement the entire universe in 6 days, they would use Common Lisp. The result would be a bit messy, tangled, and likely misunderstood, but it would work, damned.

You are confusing (AFAIK) lisp with Forth in this context. (You could, of course, use lisp to program the shuttle. As far as I know, nobody did, but I do know that the shuttle's arm was controlled by a forth program.)

Promoters of Common-Lisp will find this interesting.

One day you may need to remove text from several files, google 'sed'.
Another day, you may need to build a custom web page to sell goods: google php, mysql, and then LAMP.
This is how I've learned over the years. No right way up the mountain brother, just start running and deal with things as you hit them.

Formally, C++ gives you a clean base to start with. You'll learn many concepts of C because C++ is a dialect or sorts.
Data Types, Data Structures, Linked Lists, Vectors, and learn some best practices.

Outside the University, companies love Microsoft Access and Excel. Visual Basic will be here long after the Cockroaches croke.

One of my favorite games was written in Forth, Star Flight.

No.

There is nothing you can do with PHP that you can't do better with... anything else.

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