Which Functional programming language offers best support in Eclipse?

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Which Functional programming language offers best support in Eclipse?

As an exercise my team is looking at learning functional programming. One of the factors to choose a language is its support in Eclipse. Any language with Eclipse plug-in is fine but what language offers the best free plug-in?

Bonus question: the best online/book tutorial for this language.

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I don't know if it is the best, but it is evolving and improving fast:

Scala IDE (up to Scala2.8.1RC1 right now)

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As for the best online Scala book:

Programming Scala (Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial)

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But you will find other online sources in the SO question "List of freely available programming books".

VonC 2010-09-27 21:42:48

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I would go for Javascript, with Eclipse + Aptana plug-in and Secrets of the Javascript Ninja for a book with some nice advanced material.

James Westgate 2010-09-27 21:50:19

+1 for reminding me of JavaScript as functional programming language option and for referencing excellent resource. I have seen other post here recommending it for beginners in functional programming.

grigory 2010-09-27 21:57:22

Add node.js into the mix and this becomes a really interesting option.

James Westgate 2010-09-28 11:05:50

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