Yea, I second what froaway said. 'Scripting' in Scala is quite easy and works like you would hope it would. Integration w/ the shell is quite nice and it's as c

Yea, I second what froaway said. 'Scripting' in Scala is quite easy and works like you would hope it would. Integration w/ the shell is quite nice and it's as concise as Python, Ruby et al and yet also typesafe. Win-win. Also, I wouldn't worry too much about finding Scala programmers-- in my opinion, what you want to find rather is good programmers. And, good programmers can pick up Scala (or any other language) in short order.