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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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  • (Score: 3, Funny) by DECbot on Friday December 03 2021, @05:13PM

    by DECbot (832) on Friday December 03 2021, @05:13PM (#1201861) Journal

    Spreading invasive species around the world by boat? I presume you are also speculating on lumber futures in anticipation of a big payout when the lumber industry collapses after a lack of healthy inventory of harvestable trees. MI6 has taken interest in your charitable activities, Mr. turgid. Or should I call you by your better know name, Mr. Ernst Stavro Blofeld.

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