I suppose "amount of crap you have to type" means "low boilerplate", not "basically APL". Scala is pretty good in the low boilerplate department. I'm not a fan

I suppose "amount of crap you have to type" means "low boilerplate", not "basically APL". Scala is pretty good in the low boilerplate department. I'm not a fan of Scala in the slightest, but in terms of code more or less directly expressing ideas it isn't bad.