I want to learn functional programming

What should I start with? Haskell looks weird, lisp has so many parentheses I want to ((((()))()())))((()))(((())))))))(())))()()
and erlang appears to be useless and weird.

With that said, I am willing to learn them since I know FUCK ALL about them.

go ahead, hax my anus...

>>17
Of course. Functional programming is a way of describing programs. In the end, the functional program still has to run on real systems and so, it has to be translated into something the machine will understand."