No matter what book you read - the Scala syntax will be your biggest problem. I finally 'got it' when I realized or rather made room for the fact that Scala has

No matter what book you read - the Scala syntax will be your biggest problem. I finally 'got it' when I realized or rather made room for the fact that Scala has two sets of syntax - one for OOP and another for functional programming. And it seamlessly mixes the two styles - this creates a lot of confusion for the first time scala programmer. It also makes it diffcult to maintain code within a team of programmers using Scala unless they come to some agreement on style. On a side note - Scala is not my fav. JVM language because, personally, its in the same class as Perl and C++. Where syntax is concerned Clojure is much cleaner.