What's a good functional language for desktop scripting (like Python)?

[darkxanthos]

I'd like to get some time in with a fairly pure functional language and I'm not sure what I should be using for practice. I've played a little with Scheme and Erlang but neither one seem to have the chutzpah I need for doing Python-like scripting/programming. Maybe I'm doing it wrong?

(EDIT: Removed Windows from the title because I want it to be cross platform)

[mbrubeck]

Various parts of Real World Haskell show how to do scripting-type tasks using Haskell, especially chapters 7 and 9 (linked below, but they'll make more sense if you also read the preceding chapters):

http://book.realworldhaskell.org/read/io.html

http://book.realworldhaskell.org/read/io-case-study-a-librar...

[darkxanthos → mbrubeck]

Thanks! Any libraries for web oriented tasks?

[mbrubeck → darkxanthos]

There's a big list at http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Applications_and_librarie...

I haven't used any of these, and none of them look super-compelling to me, though HAppS seems fairly mature and full-featured.