All of what the author said is what Scala does (author likes Scala). I've written a decent amount of Scala, it's fine. I've also written a lot of Common Lisp,

All of what the author said is what Scala does (author likes Scala). I've written a decent amount of Scala, it's fine. I've also written a lot of Common Lisp, where array access is done using aref. That was also fine.