> To my eyes this is half the genius of Scala: things that would have to be config files in another language are instead just Scala code that uses particular fu

> To my eyes this is half the genius of Scala: things that would have to be config files in another language are instead just Scala code that uses particular functions and classes[2]. That's cute; he seems to think the reason for managing configuration information in separate files is due to the inflexibility of Java. Let's hope that one day he has to deal with a non-trivial project and is enlightened.