I too had done diverse programming until Scala, and the language introduced me to the functional paradigms which I now hold very dear. That being said, I was c

I too had done diverse programming until Scala, and the language introduced me to the functional paradigms which I now hold very dear. That being said, I was completely - and unprecedentedly - blown away by Clojure, as, in the Perlis-quote tradition, it completely changed the way I think about programming in ways that Scala did not. I've since decided that if I was going to master a JVM lang, it would be Clojure, and I've had the most fun programming Clojure since my Commodore Basic days. If you haven't seen any of the Rich Hickey videos on InfoQ, particularly "Are We There Yet," I can't recommend seeing them more. It sounds like you might be following a similar path to mine, and I can't recommend Clojure more highly. In the meantime though, enjoy your Scala trip - I did! :)