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Journal by turgid
Which LISP should I learn? Years ago I read about Scheme and wrote some hello world level code. I learned about lambda functions and currying. I also looked at racket. A few years ago, much of my day job involved the JVM and I was getting sick of Java so I got a book on Clojure, which is a very nice language, but I never wrote any.
A few days ago I downloaded and built the latest version of DrRacket.
Should I go straight to Haskell? Or what about other functional languages? Is Erlang worth a look?
I need something stimulating to distract my brain from the mundane nature of everyday life, and mediocre programming languages.
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Hand me a pair of leather pants and a CASIO keyboard -- I'm living for today!
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday November 28 2021, @08:38PM
This is kind of why I recommend erlang. It is well engineered, it's not a toy language, it has a mature library set, and within its domain it still sets the standard. It can be a glue language for distributed management of tight code written in C, or you can do everything in there directly.
IF I'd wanted to suggest an obscure functional language, I might have proposed APL ...