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Re:Ask HN: What is the best functional programming language ... by lottin on Saturday January 11, 2014 @06:06AM (#7042295)
I agree, R is more functional than Python. In fact R looks a lot like Lisp, except for the fact that syntactically is not based on parenthesized lists.
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Re:Ask HN: What is the best functional programming language ... by charlescearl on Thursday January 16, 2014 @08:55PM (#7073814)
In terms of functional languages for data science, surprised that Julia (http://julialang.org/) was not mentioned.

In terms of the R discussion, "Evaluating the Design of the R Language" seems to put the functional aspects in relief (http://r.cs.purdue.edu/pub/ecoop12.pdf)

In terms of where things are headed, I just came across Spivak and Wisnesky's work on Functional Query Language (FQL), http://wisnesky.net/fql.html. The introductory slides http://www.categoricaldata.net/doc/introSlides.pdf call to be read seriously.

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