advocating that beginners start using Scala No, I was talking about strong Java (or C# or C++) programmers learning Scala, starting with the OO part of Scala.

advocating that beginners start using Scala No, I was talking about strong Java (or C# or C++) programmers learning Scala, starting with the OO part of Scala. Clearly this is not a large jump, as Scala has class-based OO that is really similar to Java, C# and C++. It is perfectly possible to be productive in this fragment.