If you want to learn a functional programming language that comes with a friendly on-line community, try Haskell. The people at the Haskell IRC channel and hask

If you want to learn a functional programming language that comes with a friendly on-line community, try Haskell. The people at the Haskell IRC channel and haskell-cafe mailing list will criticize you if you say something that just isn't right, but they are also relentlessly friendly to newcomers, they like to spend some time working on educational materials that explain their latest type system hacks, and there are always some of them around.