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I can say that surpisingly R (The fastest growing language with a TON of hate for its warts) is the closest I have seen for your description. Though it really is not a general purpose language.

The closest general purpose language I have been exposed to that fits your description is Racket. Based off of Scheme and has the ability to really make your own language from it, but also has pragmatic pieces to get things done.

Love your definition: However, in FP languages the FP style should be considered the default and breaking out of that style should be done for optimization reasons.




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