I had the same problem a few months ago and I went with Haskell because it has pythonic syntax(signifcant whitespace) and it's very pure, i.e. forcing you to pr

I had the same problem a few months ago and I went with Haskell because it has pythonic syntax(signifcant whitespace) and it's very pure, i.e. forcing you to program functionally. I think in production being able to go back to iterative programming can certainly be helpful, but while learning it's more a way to not learn functional programming.