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What's the IDE of choice?
Eclipse is mine - purely because I came via the CFEclipse plugin for it, and I stayed in familiar territory.
NetBeans is another which I should probably get around to trying at some point.
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What's the flavour of Java that's at the more functional end of the functional vs. easy to learn gradient?
Uh?
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For developing on the Java platform without the horrible syntax, I've heard good things about Groovy, and keep meaning to have a look at it.
If you're talking about Functional Programming as a paradigm, I think Scala might be what you want... again, not looked at it properly yet.
If you're asking something else, then clarify your question.
EDITED: 9 Sep 2009 21:58 by BOUGHTONP