Pick a few and look around sample code, tutorials, SO, rosettacode, cheat sheets floating on the web etc. Rust, D, golang. scala, F#, ocaml, haskell. Clojure,

Pick a few and look around sample code, tutorials, SO, rosettacode, cheat sheets floating on the web etc. Rust, D, golang. scala, F#, ocaml, haskell. Clojure, racket, SBCL. Orthogonally: study probability/stats, linear algebra and calculus thru diff eq, basically the first 2 years of undergrad math for physics, math majors, EE, etc. relev: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6464127 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6464127 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6409370 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6409370 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6953568 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6953568