That said, the ML/Haskell-like functional languages do have one thing that most procedural languages do not, which is that they help you keep side effects under

That said, the ML/Haskell-like functional languages do have one thing that most procedural languages do not, which is that they help you keep side effects under control. I'd like to find a procedural language that allows for side effects (it is still procedural programming, after all), but encourages keeping them under control. I've been toying with Nim lately, and it's been a good experience. I think that it's possible to do even better, but it's already way ahead of anything else I've tried.