Erlang is a simple subset of Haskell, you can learn it very quickly. Lisp is also simple, but its simplicity quickly disappears if you try to do anything complicated.
Need I say more? When I use a programming language, I don't want eighty MEGABYTES of worthless abstractions and message passing. AWK! AWK! Who's a pretty boy, then!!!
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When I use a programming language, I don't want O(n²) algorithms in the standard library and The Forced Purification of Code. I just want to program!!!
Not "zygohistomorphic prepromorphisms". Not "comonadic functors". LISP! LISP! LISP IS THE LANGUAGE!!!
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I'd never write something like awk in Scheme.
At least for me, racket takes some time to start. (where ``some'' is not >1 second, but it's still more than C/Perl)
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Anonymous2011-01-12 9:08
wow, Erlang is the biggest of the bunch, I think I'll go with that!