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Interestingly, despite their respective reputations Haskell is by far more popular than Scala:

http://www.langpop.com/



There's lots of measures: Indeed job listings, google searches, mailing list volume; tiobe tries to incorporate a few.

http://www.drewconway.com/zia/?p=2892

http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2012/06/berkeley-progra...


I think "respective reputations" can be quite subjective. In my circles Haskell is definitely more talked about/used.


Sure: In the "hacker" world it seems that people prefer Haskell (Purely functional, native code) to Scala (OO Hybrid, JVM).

However I'd say that Scala is far more popular for building bussiness/real software than Haskell is (Twitter for example).




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