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by TeMPOraL 3399 days ago
I am opinionated and my opinion is that the more features in the language the better - as long as they're sanely organized, and not a mishmash of things hidden behind arcane syntax inventions. So right now I'm not too fond of Scala because of how messy it seems.
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The only language I know of that has a scope comparable to Scala is Oz...a language designed to teach beginner programmers the superset of programming paradigms.

And compared to Oz, I'm quite happy with how neatly unified it has turned out to be. It's not perfect, but as someone who regularly uses both OOP and FP, I'm pretty happy with it. I'm really looking forward to Dotty, because a lot of the cruftier things about Scala can start to go away.