[SkyMarshal]

Yes, I actually started learning Haskell recently b/c I thought it would help me better grok Scala, which seems to borrow mostly from the ML family.

Scala is definitely a better Java imho, and you get to keep the JVM and all its libraries, and the Lift web framework is superb, and you can even build Android apps with Scala.

But ironically I've found myself falling in love with Haskell and not wanting to use anything else. For the first time ever I know what a real type system is and what it's for, and Haskell basically pulls a Steve Jobs in completely rethinking how to do parallelism (strictly control global state and side effects by eliminating them by default, enabled only via monad).

Mind expanding indeed.