I was going to add a Clojure group soon, but I think this is probably a better idea. I've been dabbling (following various communities, reading about concepts, etc) in Common Lisp, ML, Scheme, and general programming language stuff for many years now, but haven't written anything of significance, really. Rich Hickey is proving to be a great evangelist for his language (Clojure), and I think I'll actually start using it if I can find some time.

Rad, yeah I was thinking about starting a Haskell and a Factor or a J group and I started to realize that maybe all of that was going overboard. I've done a whole lot of nothing with scheme (lots of books and school) but never managed to get around to using it for work. Same with Haskell and I've dabbled in J and Forth and CL and various other Functional languages. I think they're a joy and I'm very excited about the renewed exposure they're getting.

I'm not sure if there's more we could do. Maybe a meet up, or a segment of a larger group of this kind of deep tech community.