Yeah I've tried learning Scala for a year. It was painful, real painful and I felt like I didn't learn much from it. Now I'm learning Erlang and I'm applying

Yeah I've tried learning Scala for a year. It was painful, real painful and I felt like I didn't learn much from it. Now I'm learning Erlang and I'm applying what I've learned from Scala to Erlang and wow. I'm glad I took at stab at Scala. Erlang is wonderful btw, it's so simple there are some minor drawback like no string primitive... I also love the fact that there is no loop, it forces me to think recursively. I guess because it's so simple I can just focus on learning the functional part instead of other stuff such as new objects paradigm (traits, etc..), design pattern ("pimp my whatever"), and type. I'm guess once I'm done with this I'll focus on type, thinking Haskell...