Lately, I have read a number of articles extolling the virtues of functional programming, e.g.: Inspired by these, I would like to learn a functional programming language. It would great if that language could be practically useful, but any language that would help me to learn programming from a functional stance would be most welcome. I come from an imperative background (C, Perl, Fortran) and am comfortable with object-oriented (OO Perl, C++) and declarative (Prolog, SQL) approaches.

From my limited knowledge, it seems like Lisp and Haskell are the most popular functional languages right now. Some books that look promising are

My questions to my fellow monks are: am I on the right track? Are there other languages, books or tutorials that I should investigate?

-Mark

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In reply to Resources for Functional Programming? by kvale

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