[medo-bear]

What you say would be the case if Nix uses Haskell or Guix uses some obscure purpouse made lisp

[tomn]

again, you said

> by learning Guile you learn a lisp which some people find quite enlightening

so learning a lisp is enlightening, but learning a FP language is not

[medo-bear]

FP is a paradigm. lisp is a language. you can use lisp to learn FP

if i wanted to learn pure FP i would probably pick many things over Nix

[tomn]

> if i wanted to learn pure FP i would probably pick many things over Nix

of course, but that wasn't the question:

> What do you gain from learning Nix, asside from Nix?

[medo-bear]

but if you wanted to learn lisp/scheme Guile is a very good choice whereas if you wanted to learn FP Nix is a pretty crappy choice