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As anyone who reads this blog knows, my favorite programming language is Haskell. I love functional programming, and Haskell is a great vehicle for pushing functional programming to its limits. However, I try to keep up with other up-and-coming languages, especially functional ones, so of course I've been aware of Scala ever since it came out. At the time, I took a cursory look at it and didn't like what I saw; there was too much syntactic sugar for my taste and the language seemed excessively complex. However, some people I respect like the language, so I've been giving it another look. My comments are not based on a comprehensive knowledge of the language, just what I've gleaned from a couple of weeks of reading and playing around.