And yet the whole first part of his talk was problems with scala that are not problems in haskell. And many of those problems exist precisely because of java c

And yet the whole first part of his talk was problems with scala that are not problems in haskell. And many of those problems exist precisely because of java compatibility, which he acknowledges and says is not a good enough reason to do things poorly. By his own measure it seems like he should be using haskell.