I used to be a fan of polyglotism and knew a bunch of languages to various degrees of profiency. But the market pays much , much more for depth than breadth. Th

I used to be a fan of polyglotism and knew a bunch of languages to various degrees of profiency. But the market pays much , much more for depth than breadth. The tools that pulled me into the quarter million paycheck territory were - 1. Good Scala - FPish Scala, coupled with Scala libraries such as Spark, mllib, scalaz, Scalding, Apache Math, colt, akka. 2. Bad Scala - Using Scala much more as an imperative lang, primarily for 3 purposes - shell scripting, web front-end html5 graphics and DOM manipulation with scalajs and web back-end with scalatra. 3. R - This one is not going anywhere in a million years thanks to Hadley Wickam and co. Now with SparkR I get to use #1 and #2 with #3. My one desire is that Styla becomes a first class citizen in this ecosystem as well - when you need prolog, there is often no easy substitute.