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by spiralpolitik 3767 days ago
Most intern resumes that I've seen recently have Java, Python, and Javascript on them. A few add C/C++ to those. I've only seen one with anything approaching a functional language (OCaml).

Personally I think Python, Java, or Javascript are good places to start coding. Python has the slight edge because there are a lot of good educational kits (Raspberry Pi as an example) that really make learning to code fun although the whole 2.x/3.x mess muddies the water a bit.

I think once the tooling gets a little bit better then Haskell could easily be added to that list. It's close but not quite there today.

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I have some functional programming experience, but I've never put it on the resume because I have never seen any company request experience in it, so it seems like a waste of space to put it on there. So that could explain why you never usually see it on a resume.