[joehillen]

> Nimrod's syntax is quite similar to scala

What are you talking about!? Have you even looked at either?

Nimrod:

    for i in 1..100:
        if i mod 15 == 0:
            echo("FizzBuzz")
        elif i mod 3 == 0:
            echo("Fizz")
        elif i mod 5 == 0:
            echo("Buzz")
        else:
            echo(i)

Scala:

    for (x <- 1 to 100) println(
        (x % 3, x % 5) match {
            case (0, 0) => "FizzBuzz"
            case (0, _) => "Fizz"
            case (_, 0) => "Buzz"
            case _      => x
        })

In nimrod you'll notice a lot less parens, curly braces, and '=>'.

> fast Haskell and easy/safe Haskell tend not to overlap as much as one would like

Not even remotely true. Where did you even get that idea?

[dom96]

It really depends on what part of Nimrod and Scala you look at. The similarities are perhaps more apparent when looking at the function declaration syntax, generics and/or the variable declaration syntax.