hmmm - your measure of "complexity" is not the consensus one. Scala has a lot of machinery in its type system, and Haskell has very little. LISP has even less.

hmmm - your measure of "complexity" is not the consensus one. Scala has a lot of machinery in its type system, and Haskell has very little. LISP has even less. Scala may have been inspired by Haskell in some ways, but the experience of writing it is very different.