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If I decide to pick up a new language, it'll probably be Scala. My only real reasoning for that is because the language is younger, which just seems more exciting. Now, if I could just find time or a reason to start using Scala then that would be awesome. :)

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Yeah, Scala looks exciting, and from what little I've seen of its syntax, it looks different enough to be interesting. Plus there's an excellent online book that I could use to get started with it.

Scala also hits the sweet spot of both new but usable in production. Linkedin, Foursquare, and Twitter all have significant portions of their apps written in Scala.

I'd be a little more hesitant about creating a production app with Haskell, though it's been done.

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