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Coincidence. Two days ago stumbled across Racket. Pretty nice, because it's extremely easy to use and supports a number of languages. Just wanted to throw it in for everyone who (like me) always said "sometime". Everything easier than one my think. :)

http://racket-lang.org/

Oh and for everyone who wants to get into functional programming, very quick (and very hard) simply has to read this Wikibook. It's short, but you will most likely have _understood_ two functional languages (Scheme and Haskell), if you do it seriously:

http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Write_Yourself_a_Scheme_in_48_H...

So Racket for a great (free) time and the latter one for Hackers. At least that's what it looks to me. I just have skimmed through them, but they are the best two things I have found in a while.




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