Haskell

It's pretty much the ultimate programming language.

Functional. Used in the academia. Used in the real world (unlike Lisps). Fast. Scalable. Has lots and lots of libraries. Type inference. Type safety.

>>4
That part is true:
type String = [Char]

But there's also a highly optimized string processing package (Data.Text) backed by real arrays with Unicode-aware indexing, so it's not like you're handcuffed to shitty list types. The only annoying thing is how String is still the default for backwards compatibility reasons.

>>6
That was ACADEMIC BULLSHITE !

>>11
Only in theory. In practice, it's ENTERPRISE