Most applicable functional language to learn?
gtani: Here's a micro reading list on FP(cut/pasted  from another thread).  The Cesarini/Thompson Erlang and Halloway clojure books are really excellent, tho it should be noted that clojure's a fast moving target and lots has happened in release 1.1 that promote new coding techniques.-- Cesarini/Thompson, Erlang ; Logan, Merritt, Carlsson, OTP in action-- Halloway, Clojure (supposedly, besides the Manning MEAP PDF book, another Manning and a Apress book are in preparation)-- Scala: (all 3 books out look pretty good, tho I haven't spent a lot of time digging in, and haven't decided if scala's language syntax is denser than clojure's; The Odersky/Spoon / Venners is the largest and not an easy book to get thru, but probably authoritative.  The Payne/Wampler text freely available onlinehttp://programming-scala.labs.oreilly.com/-- haskell: Real World. content freely available online.http://book.realworldhaskell.org/