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Gasbraai
Oct 25, 2010

Lictor my Dictor
I'm looking for an FP language to learn and eventually do actual work in. My current day job is ruby mostly but it seems we will be moving towards jruby / jvm based dev and deployment. I have poked around with haskell in the past and done the first 6 or so adventofcode problems in haskell but I don't really see how I would be able to use it productively or teach it to my coworkers.

I initially thought that maybe scala would be the way to go but it seems that it would be really easy for someone to fall back to writing imperative code in scala. Would typed clojure be a good middle ground / starting point between dynamically typed imperative code and typed functional code? Does typed clojure have a mechanism for 'typeclasses' like haskell, ie, can I specify a "monad" interface for types and have separate implementations per type?

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