Ask HN: What is the best functional programming language for data science?

Re:Ask HN: What is the best functional programming language ... by svenkatesh on Sunday December 29, 2013 @12:41PM (#6980381)

Python isn't a "pure" functional language, but it is general purpose, and it does accommodate functional programming (although it isn't strict).

You get the additional benefit of having well-developed numerical and graphing libraries (scipy, numpy, matplotlib, etc.)

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Re:Ask HN: What is the best functional programming language ... by ptwobrussell on Sunday December 29, 2013 @12:50PM (#6980429)

At the moment, Python is the language I am most proficient with and my go-to language. I definitely appreciate the functional aspects that it has incorporated (list/dictionary comprehensions, functions like map, zip, reduce, and anonymous functions with lambda.) In 2014, however, I'm planning to gain some proficiency with something close to a Haskell, OCaml, or Lisp dialect. Hoping to hear back from someone who has done some "heavy lifting" with one of those...

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Re:Ask HN: What is the best functional programming language ... by carreau on Sunday December 29, 2013 @01:11PM (#6980507)

Hopefully you can try Haskell without leaving your favorite environment (IPython notebook), since there is now a haskell kernel (https://github.com/gibiansky/IHaskell)

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Re:Ask HN: What is the best functional programming language ... by ptwobrussell on Sunday December 29, 2013 @01:42PM (#6980651)

Nice! Didn't know about that yet!

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Re:Ask HN: What is the best functional programming language ... by tomrod on Friday January 10, 2014 @02:25PM (#7038758)

That's awesome! I have another summer goal to add to the list.

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