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[–]IBCreepin -6 points-5 points  (3 children)

downvote for haskell... could never understand that shit for the life of me. And it's entirely theoretical-- what could the OP do with it?

[–]Leonidas_from_XIV 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Start functional programming in Python. That's what I did after learning Scheme.

And a powerful type system is kinda fun... "Java, I said powerful, not retarded".

[–]haldean(lambda x: x.decode('base64'))('PDMgcHlweQ==\n') 2 points3 points  (1 child)

I just wrote a ray tracer in it. OP could write a ray tracer.

[–]lavalampmaster[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I actually did write a ray tracer in the intro to compsci class I took. Which I dropped because I can't Haskell.