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I am excited to dive into FP, however, there doesn't seem to be a 'good' language yet. I noticed that oCaml is running up but that's still a bit too much 'scien

• valarauca1 12y ago
  Common LISP is a great language, but it spoils you since it has so few restrictions, its kinda in a class of its own because its just so unrestricted. Scala is a fine language, but limited, largely serves as gate way drug to other FP languages. Its a very good starting point. Haskell is odd and the type system is I feel restrictive. Also the community is really addicted to big mathy words. I do love its notation at the same time :\ F# is pretty much universally loved (from what I gather, I haven't used it myself), and now that the .NET run time is unbolted from windows it might start gaining traction. oCaml I haven't used so I can't comment. Erlang is VERY popular, especially with the backend FP crowd since it does concurrency very simply. I haven't used it.
  • codygman 12y ago
    > Haskell is odd and the type system is I feel restrictive. Can you elaborate on this? After using Haskell for some time now I can't seem to come up with use cases where the type system is/would be restrictive.
• mod 12y ago
  A lot of people are swearing by Clojure. I've been learning, myself, and really enjoying myself. It seems to have a pretty solid web ecosystem, can use the best parts of java, and is a lisp with optional mutability for when you feel you need it. I'm not disappointed I chose it, I can say that much.