[jim-jim-jim]

For what it's worth, I write Scala professionally. I don't think I'd be nearly as successful with it if I hadn't learned Haskell first. ymmv, but it's helpful to divide and conquer. Haskell is a much cleaner way to "learn FP." You can take almost all of that knowledge and staple it onto Scala later. Learning the universal and ultimately quite simple concepts that comprise FP alongside the Scala language itself seems needlessly painful. The noisy syntax and compiler quirks will obscure whatever wisdom you're hoping to squeeze out of the process.

So yeah, learn Haskell, then make money with Scala.