If you have a knee-jerk reaction to everything that looks different, you'll lose out on lots of fun stuff. You should give lisp a try, I'm sure you won't regret it.

Yes I always tell ppl, sure you don't need to like LISP but as a serious CS professional, AT LEAST give it a real HONEST go! Then if you still don't like it, cool, move on !

There is an active and lively and long-lived LISP-Like community even today, there is a high probability there is something there.

YMMV :)