Motivating projects to learn functional programming languages?
MaysonL: Take a look at the FluidDB Weekend of Code[1] and pick a language that nobody's done yet, build a little library implementing their API in that language, and you'll end up with two new cutting-edge skills. (And a free book).[1] http://blogs.fluidinfo.com/fluidDB/2009/09/17/fluiddb-weeken...