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Would love to see a citation re: Odersky (or if he'd chime in here).

My general assumption is that if Scala was intended to be category theory, implemented, something along the lines of scalaz or cats would have been built into the language -- the philosophy of the language does not include a JS-esque philosophy of small stdlib, big library ecosystem.

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See this talk https://youtu.be/P8jrvyxHodU

He mentions module systems fairly early on.

What does this have to do with the original assertion that "one of Odersky's motives in creating Scala was bringing the power of Haskell into the JVM world"?

AFAIK, Odersky doesn't particularly like people trying to replicate Haskell patterns in Scala. For example, he thinks using monads for most effects is inappropriate.

Threading fail. I thought I was replying to someone who had asked for a citation for:

> Odersky has long claimed ML as his primary functional programming influence, not Haskell.

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