Starting programming

Is it a good idea to start programming with LISP through SICP? I've always heard mixed opinions: some say math and books aren't really important to programming and you should just get to the point (a language you want to learn) and some say you should be good at it and focus on learning math as well.

>LISP through SICP

u mena scheme. i'd rather just learn lisp through a different source, tbh, even getting a good scheme implementation to learn sicp with is frustrating because mit-scheme and edwin sucks dicks. chicken scheme also sucks dicks. racket is not even compatible anymore.

and i can't see a reason not to learn a functional language, particularly lisp. all these new fancy fartapp/webapp reactive programming frameworks make heavy use of lambdas and monads and functional concepts, so you're better off actually knowing this stuff, it's kind of becoming the norm now.