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Sounds like you have a lot of experience with imperative and procedural languages.

If you want to try something pretty difficult, but familiar, try a super-strict language like Ada.

If you want to try something completely different, I would suggest a functional language.

Elixir is already on you shortlist. I would also suggest taking a look at OCaml, Erlang, F#, Clojure, etc... However, I would not suggest Haskell if you're just starting out in functional.




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