[justinhj]

"baroquesque abomination" is a very colourful but somewhat unfair description of Scala. I've been using it in production for a few years now and I find it can be quite pretty if you're careful, and is quite readable once learned. Not only that but after years of Common Lisp and Clojure programming (at hobby level) I never really satisfactorily lived the dream of the programmable programming language that lisp offers. With Scala I find it has capable facilities for writing DSL's without even resorting to compile type macros. I do agree the syntax can be terrible especially when people go crazy making DSL's for libraries or make their code too dense and unreadable.