This is true, I was from an OO background and Scala was my first functional language. I had to put it aside for a while and learn Haskell to grok the functiona

This is true, I was from an OO background and Scala was my first functional language. I had to put it aside for a while and learn Haskell to grok the functional side of Scala. The ML world can be a little alien if you're new to it, and I found it useful to learn from a purely functional language first and then go back to Scala with a better understanding of how it fits OO and ML together.