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3 points by Pauan 3415 days ago | link | parent

You're right, Clojure is not a bad choice either, in my opinion. It's even more heavily functional than Arc, so it's an excellent way to ease into functional programming. There are certain things I really dislike about Clojure, but on the other hand there are some things I absolutely love about it. I think it gets a lot of things right.

I think Arc is a better language for learning Lisp, but you are correct that Clojure would be better for writing actual applications that do things. Solving actual problems with actual applications can give you a lot of motivation, and motivation is important when learning anything.