[didibus]

I wouldn't agree to that. LISPs were the first Functional Languages as FP has its roots in Lambda Calculus. Scala is much more multi-paradigm, and I think its further away from the FP languages. Even Wikipedia agrees: "An interesting case is that of Scala[28] – it is frequently written in a functional style, but the presence of side effects and mutable state place it in a grey area between imperative and functional languages."

A lot of FP practitioners tend to come from academia and most of the research currently lies in provability, so a lot of the FP community seems interested in strongly typed languages, because they overlap the language research communities, but I doubt anyone in the community would claim they are more tuned to FP, because that's just a lie. In fact, a lot of the challenge of typed FP languages is designing a type system powerful enough to express all types of functions, so they're often more restrictive in how they can implement FP.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Functional_programming

[shark0]

Yes, Scala is multi-paradigm and it support OOP as well as imperative programming but the community is very much dedicated to FP. All I see is typed FP that expands my mind.

[GFK_of_xmaspast]

A lot of lisp people get testy when you call lisp a functional language.