> After a couple of paragraphs brainwashing you about how good functional programming is, you finally get to some code. Whenever I see a page about a new progr

> After a couple of paragraphs brainwashing you about how good functional programming is, you finally get to some code. Whenever I see a page about a new programming language I usually skip all the marketing speech at first and look for a code fragment to examine first. After that I'll start reading the actual text.