Scala

Listen brahs. I have a dirty anus that needs cleaning: Java. I learned Java as my first language in school and now that I learned Scheme and am learning Haskell, I figured I may as well not let that go to waste and learn Scala. Is it simple to go from Java to Scala? Or is the syntax strange in some places. Because I looked over some code snippets and it seemed decent.

I can pinpoint the exact page in Real World Haskell where I became lost. I was reading along surprisingly well until page 156, upon introduction of newtype.

At that my point my smug grin became a panicked grimace. The next dozen pages were an insane downward spiral into the dark labyrinth of Haskell's type system. I had just barely kept data and class and friends straight in my mind. type I managed to ignore completely. newtype was the straw that broke the camel's back.

As a general rule, Haskell syntax is incredibly impenetrable. => vs. -> vs. <-? I have yet to reach the chapter dealing with >>=. The index tells me I can look forward to such wonders as >>? and ==> and <|>. Who in their right mind thought up the operator named .&.? The language looks like Japanese emoticons run amuck. If and when I reach the \(^.^)/ operator I'm calling it a day.