One approach is Haskell with physics, which would seem very procedural, demonstrating its utility as in Learn Physics with Functional Programming (2022).

Just always want to use pure FP to do leetcode or codeforce stuff loll

I spent a few weeks rewriting my PhD algorithm in Haskell as an exercise, but it also provided some insights.

I later wrote it in Python and list compression paid the most dividends for readability.

Originally in C, then Go (then Haskell, finally python, meaning to write parts of it in JAX)

Prioritized Grammar Enumeration for the curious

Rust go zig and Haskell TRY IT