Personally, I love the OP's response to your last comment: "I hate Scala with a passion, for what it's worth. I just wish there had been more advocacy for it."

Personally, I love the OP's response to your last comment: "I hate Scala with a passion, for what it's worth. I just wish there had been more advocacy for it." I wouldn't characterize myself as hating Scala, but I understand where he's coming from on both points. There are reasons that this static typing fan tends to prefer Clojure to Scala on the JVM. Also, it's just a beautiful quote.