I think it's much more challenging to find quotes from Martin Odersky where he talks about disliking a language than it is finding quotes where he talks about l

I think it's much more challenging to find quotes from Martin Odersky where he talks about disliking a language than it is finding quotes where he talks about liking one. Scala is a bit of a kitchen-sink language; there are things in there from all over the place. It makes sense that he can find things to like in many disparate languages. (fwiw: I like Scala, and I like that Martin Odersky can find good things to say about other programming languages :))