Learning Haskell with a view to learning Scala

Question

I\'ve read a few questions such as Scala vs Haskell discussing the merits of both languages or which to learn, but I already know that I\'d like to learn Scala. I was a Java pro

Answer 1

The risk of starting directly from Scala, without having played any purely functional programming language first, is that you'll probably be drawn to the procedural solutions a bit too often.

I wouldn't try Haskell as an intro to functional programming, though: not that it's particularly hard - its syntax is amazingly terse - but it's definitely very peculiar (even in the peculiar world of functional programming) and I think you should try with a language you can port more easily to Scala, like Racket or plain Scheme.

To better understand what I mean, look at list comprehensions in Haskell, Scala and Scheme.