Haskell and Scala don't fit my ways of adopting things. A way is akin to "the best bang for the bucks", so both provide too much, especially Scala. If I have to

Haskell and Scala don't fit my ways of adopting things. A way is akin to "the best bang for the bucks", so both provide too much, especially Scala. If I have to choose between a gazillion abstraction/features that can do many things, and a simple language that can do many things. Definitely go for the letter.