Learn Lisp today and other stuff
Master Jedi Jeff had an itch in between Gallio coding and over on the Gallio contrib coded up a Instrumentation API using Mono Cecil, very sweet. The contrib section is just something that is not on any channel and we keep to throw out our ideas. As Jeff states in his post if other folks like his ideas then it may get developed further, do check out his post and let him know what you think.
Wihin Jeffs post I noticed Jason Bock left a comment and I thought 'I know that name', then it struck me, his written two great books that I own, one on IL and the other on Attributes. I also know Jason from his .NET Languages website and ran into a post from Craig Andera on the site . As Craig states
I believe it's a good idea to learn at least one new programming language a year. If nothing else, it keeps me from getting bored. You might think I'd choose Ruby, as that's pretty hot right now (in certain circles). And in truth I'm interested. I've even read some of The Pickaxe Book. But the language I've decided to devote my time to is Common Lisp.
I can see why Craig wants to do this, he has its own requirements but more so you can find many concepts from Lisp in Ruby as well as those that Lisp holds as its own. While Ruby is a very powerful and very popular language, personally Lisp draws me in more.