I'm sorry, but I think calling Scala "not well designed" is a bit off the mark and smells of flame-bait. Relative to the extremely hard problem of putting a Hin

I'm sorry, but I think calling Scala "not well designed" is a bit off the mark and smells of flame-bait. Relative to the extremely hard problem of putting a Hindley-Milner type system on top of the JVM, I think it's extremely well-designed. I probably prefer Clojure slightly, but Scala-bashers are missing the fact that, for what Scala is trying to do, it does it extraordinarily well. Now, I don't like object-oriented programming at all so I question the utility of that aspect of JVM support-- Clojure's doing a much better job of making that stuff the weird-looking clunky part-- but Scala does a damn good job with what history handed it.