Thanks, Scala collections in particular are unfortunately capable of wreaking havoc (Paul Phillips' infamous List(1,2,3).contains("your mom")) in surprising way

Thanks, Scala collections in particular are unfortunately capable of wreaking havoc (Paul Phillips' infamous List(1,2,3).contains("your mom")) in surprising ways. I'm not saying that Scala's approach to G(ADT)s is flawless (by any means), but it is powerful, and to cast a strength as a weakness is a bit disengenious, particularly when the SO user is in fact saying, what's the deal, Scala is superior to Haskell in this area. Then again, Scala's terribly unpopular in the Haskell community and here on HN, so casting the language in a bad light is of no surprise. FWIW, I really enjoyed that Twitter Bird pic tweeting out Haskell's logo in this language usage breakdown[1]. Heh, the language that everybody is talking about...and nobody is using O_o Saying that, Haskell by all indications seems poised to take off, so I may be eating my words in future. We shall see, next 3 to 5 years on and off the JVM are going to be interesting times indeed ;-) https://github.com/Dobiasd/programming-language-subreddits-and-their-choice-of-words/blob/master/README.md https://github.com/Dobiasd/programming-language-subreddits-a...