Ask HN: Which functional language should a newbie start with?
As far as functional programming goes I'm a newbie. But I'm willing to put some energy there to change that.
Which language would you suggest me to start with? Specifics follow.
* Been on this line of work for about 15 years now - so not newbie in general. I can pick things up fast.
* Mostly doing systems work atm but have ventured to enterprise here and there. Just to be on the practical side I'd like a performant (low latency) language with easy concurrency primitives. (Is really anyone using fun. prog. in systems/embedded?)
* There must be (job) market value in it. So, obscure (but maybe nice) languages that have little or no market value are out of the question.
So far it seems the answer is leaning towards clojure but I can't imagine it being used to replace C in low latency projects.