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Re:Ask HN: If you're “ridiculously in love with Python”, do ... by falcolas on Wednesday January 21, 2015 @12:36PM (#8924244)
> Is there a less crazy functional language you would recommend?

Clojure. It's a well supported and documented dialect of Lisp, which is a fundamentally functional language (though not purely functional), implemented on a platform that just about everyone has access to: the JVM.

The more you can minimize your use of the dot operator (which implicitly means minimizing your dependence on Java libraries), the more you'll learn about functional programming.

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Re:Ask HN: If you're “ridiculously in love with Python”, do ... by mpthrapp on Wednesday January 21, 2015 @12:50PM (#8924328)
Alright, thanks. I'll give Clojure a shot at some point. I've played around with lisp a tiny bit in the context of reading SCIP, but that's about it.
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