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Ok, yeah, influenced. Javascript could also be called a LISP with C-Syntax, but that wouldn't make it a LISP. But I get what you mean.

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You should compare the actual syntax and constructs. I agree that JS and LISP certainly are as far apart as anything else, and Python is as "functional" as any other imperative language.

But Scala indeed is very similar to (1) OCaml and then (2) ML, and last, (3) Haskell in terms of type inference, syntax, and many other FP concepts [1].

[1] http://www.appservgrid.com/hyper/hyp/ml

Fair enough, thanks for the pointer :)

Scala is Hindley-Milner?

http://www.scala-lang.org/old/node/4654

(Short answer: No, because it has [to support] subtypes.)

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