Unhappy with the current state of functional programming. I know I should't be. I have a lot of options.
I went to school at UC Berkeley. My first language was Scheme. Then Elisp. CLOS was in the first few too. I really didn't learn C or C++ until second semester.
A few months ago I had to pick up enough Scala to figure out what some code did in a project and I wasn't really happy with the language. I realize it is multi-paradigm, but the functional part just seems a little bolted on at times. The notation was clunky. Maybe it is because I prefer Lisp-ish and APL-ish languages. And the Scala docs aren't very friendly. I actually find it easier to write imperative code in Scala than functional code.
Clojure seems nice, but lacks a lot of things that you kind of want in a LISP (proper tail rec). Racket has very little market pen.
Maybe I'm just picky, but I don't see anything I really want to put time into.
I went to school at UC Berkeley. My first language was Scheme. Then Elisp. CLOS was in the first few too. I really didn't learn C or C++ until second semester.
A few months ago I had to pick up enough Scala to figure out what some code did in a project and I wasn't really happy with the language. I realize it is multi-paradigm, but the functional part just seems a little bolted on at times. The notation was clunky. Maybe it is because I prefer Lisp-ish and APL-ish languages. And the Scala docs aren't very friendly. I actually find it easier to write imperative code in Scala than functional code.
Clojure seems nice, but lacks a lot of things that you kind of want in a LISP (proper tail rec). Racket has very little market pen.
Maybe I'm just picky, but I don't see anything I really want to put time into.