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there's 5 FP languages emerging

- scala: 2.8 beta is out, people want reliable eclipse, intellij and netBeans plugins, and more time to figure out type system; I think next couple years, a lot of developers are going to be "upgraded from java" via their VP's of engineering; s/b interesting;

- clojure: users are pretty happy; language, compiler and toolset evolving at warpspeed

- F#: people want Vis Stud 2010 out April 12 and 100% bug-free, ;-}

- haskell: people want lots more time to understand it

- erlang: users are pretty happy




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