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To add to the evidence, I'm an experienced Python programmer who is currently waiting very impatiently for his Amazon shipment of "Real World Haskell" and "Purely Functional Data Structures". (Oh, and "Garfield Minus Garfield".)

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While you're waiting for PFDS, here's Okasaki's thesis (http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~rwh/theses/okasaki.pdf). It's the seed of the book.

There's sort of an emerging Big 4 (plus 1) of FP

http://book.realworldhaskell.org/

http://programming-scala.labs.oreilly.com/

http://caml.inria.fr/pub/docs/oreilly-book/

http://www.freetechbooks.com/introduction-to-objective-caml-...

don't know of any freely available content books on Clojure or Erlang;

The last of those books opens with "Objective Caml (OCaml) is a popular, expressive, high-perfomance dialect of ML...". This must be some hitherto unknown usage of the word "popular"...

Popularity is relative -- in this case you must compare OCaml to other forms of ML, in which case the popularity is obvious :)

forgot about these

http://learnyouahaskell.com/

http://learnyousomeerlang.com/

http://java.ociweb.com/mark/clojure/article.html

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