Incidental?  It&#x27;s pretty well known that Scala was heavily influenced by Haskell.  In particular, do notation (for comprehensions), pattern matching, lots of standard lib classes (ex Maybe (Option)), many of the methods in the collections library (map, fold, take, etc)<p>Anyway, I wasn&#x27;t trying to disparage either of them (or this project).  Just poking fun at the seemingly common &quot;I want to use Haskell but I&#x27;m forced to deploy on the JVM&quot; use case for Scala.