Ask HN: A month to learn a new programming language

[mmisu]

I find myself with one month of free time between jobs and I've decided that I want to learn a new programming language and implement a small ray tracer in this.

I'm familiar with imperative and OO programming models, so I was thinking to dive into something completely new to me like Standard ML, Ocaml or Haskell.

I would love to hear your suggestions about what new programming language to learn (as long as it is not a paradigm that I'm already familiar with).

Thanks

[Davidbrcz]

Scala ? OO/Functionnal JVM based language. Not the purest FP language ever, but it is used a lot (Finance, web...).

Any lisp (Scheme, Closure...)

Prolog: logic programming. Tell the computer what you know, ask a question and let it compute the answer for you.

[continuational]

Elm might be a good choice. It’s a simple but useful functional language. From there, Scala, Haskell and Standard ML will be much easier to grasp.

[brudgers]

Erlang.

[bausshf]

dlang.org

[bausshf]

Look at this http://h3.gd/ctrace/