Re: Beginning functional programming

[Andrew Oswald <andrew.oswald@gmail.com>]

Erlang's not too bad.  Getting acclimated to OTP will give you a jumpstart on a bunch of the stuff currently going on elsewhere - like actors, supervision hierarchies, etc.

If I can offer an opinion, while Haskell certainly has its merits, your time is probably better spent elsewhere (like focusing on a language that can get you a job once you graduate, at which point you can tinker w/ Haskell later).

+1 for Clojure

On Fri, Apr 13, 2012 at 1:55 PM, pjt <pt720185@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi all - 3rd year student at West Chester University here, hoping to
get started learning functional programming. I'm attracted to the idea
of no side effects, as well as the close relation of functional
languages to mathematical ideas and notation. I'm wondering, what is a
good language to start with? I've heard good things about Haskell and
Clojure, but I'm hoping to get some more opinions.
Thanks.