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>What the hell are you talking about?

Exactly what I said. You can go read your post if you have forgotten its contents.

>not end users who remain, for the most part, unaware of whatever issues may lie under the hood.

You are simply repeating yourself. Paul Phillips contradicts you, and I find him to be much more credible.

>Other than Haskell, given the context of the thread, which language might you be referring to as the better alternative to Scala?

Ocaml, F#, SML and clean.

>please name this better alternative that is presumably not Haskell.

Why would it not be haskell? Haskell is pretty obviously the best option.