Just read a book like Practical Common Lisp, Land of Lisp or Learn Haskell for the greater good, you will learn how to do some interesting programs and you visi

Just read a book like Practical Common Lisp, Land of Lisp or Learn Haskell for the greater good, you will learn how to do some interesting programs and you vision of side effects will change. I am trying out Go now, it is really nice too, if you want to read some code check out http://github.com/lamg/md2sexp http://github.com/lamg/md2sexp, it is really easy to understand (but it does not work yet).