although Scala has local type inference, you see far more type declarations than you would in ML or Haskell. if you have a lot of one-line functions (which migh

although Scala has local type inference, you see far more type declarations than you would in ML or Haskell. if you have a lot of one-line functions (which might be 5-15 in Java, say), the type decls become a significant fraction of characters typed. even with that, on the merits Scala is one of the best languages out there in my mind.