I can respect and applaud the man for wanting to learn, When I picked up scala I had the same experience he did. When I went to solve a problem I immediately fe

I can respect and applaud the man for wanting to learn, When I picked up scala I had the same experience he did. When I went to solve a problem I immediately fell back to the imperative style of programming since that's how my brain has worked for a decade. It has taken real time and effort to _try_ and solve problems in a functional manner. Turns out that's a really good and elegant solution for some problems and a skill that's worth developing. If another language makes that training easier then by all means use it. One of the real benefits of scala is you can be useful in it ( just solving the problem ) while you have all the tooling necessary to make those elegant solutions when you have the requisite skill set to implement them. It would be handy if scalac has a setting like -Werror in C land where non-functional constructs would be flagged in the codebase.