You call it sacrificing, I call it awesomeness. Scala achieves the best marriage between OOP and FP available. If you come from Haskell, you can view that as a

You call it sacrificing, I call it awesomeness. Scala achieves the best marriage between OOP and FP available. If you come from Haskell, you can view that as a sacrifice, of course. But I don't, to me that's a strength. Scala is not Haskell and Haskell is not Scala. If you use one and expect the other, you'll be disappointed.