> Scala has a Lisp-like quality in that I feel like I should love it. This is the complete opposite of my experience. I love Clojure because it enables me to

> Scala has a Lisp-like quality in that I feel like I should love it. This is the complete opposite of my experience. I love Clojure because it enables me to build large / non-trivial applications after learning a minimal set of rules. Scala, on the other hand, appears to have a relatively large number of syntax rules and special cases.