title: What to learn after PHP? Scala or Clojure?
body: <p>I have a heavy web dev background with PHP. My reasons for learning a functional programming languages are:</p>
  
  <ol>
  <li>to improve my programming skills. It was heavily suggested that learning a FPL helps. this has high priority because I want to be better and better.</li>
  <li>learn a general purpose programming language to solve tasks like scripting (OS scripting, text manipulation etc..)</li>
  <li>to be used as an alternative for PHP in web development.</li>
  </ol>
  
  <p>Also which has the better community support, tutorials and books and the better web application framework?</p>
  
  <p>Feel free to suggest other languages.</p>