As its opening sentence reminds the reader—a point often missed by many reviewers—the book Functional Programming in Scala is not a book about Scala. This [wise] choice occasionally manifests in peculiar ways. For example, you can go quite far into the book implementing its exercises in languages with simpler type systems. Chapters 1–8 and 10 port quite readily to Java [8] and C#. So Functional Programming in Scala can be a very fine resource for learning some typed functional programmi...
