Akin to blasphemy

From Programming in Scala by Odersky/Spoon/Venners:

If you're coming from an imperative background, such as Java, C++, or C#, you may think of VAR as a regular variable and VAL as a special kind of variable. On the other hand, if you're coming from a functional background such as Haskell, OCaml, or Erlang, you might think of VAL as a regular variable and VAR as akin to blasphemy.

TRVTH.