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As a former lisper I cant but help feel that haskell and scala are the modern lisps. In 10 years all industrial languages will be undeniably influenced by these pioneers but the languages itself wont be the next big thing.

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Maybe. But it feels like Functional programming at least is a thing now. I can't see the next decade's language remaining an imperative bog...

I cringed at seeing the following Ruby today:

  "error#{'s' if errors.size > 1}"

:-)

Did you start that paragraph with a "Maybe" on purpose? lol

Just wondering, how do you feel about clojure?

Sadly it came up after I had already shifted to Python so I lack the experience to talk credibly about Clojure.

Haskell seems more united than the lisps, though. There doesn't seem to be a lot of 'dialects'/direct descendants, with the possible exception of languages that try to achieve specific things (Agda, Elm...).

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