[michaelcampbell]

Everything's unreadable until one learns to read it. This is a classic non-argument that people buy into for reasons I can't comprehend. Is Scala harder to read than other languages? Perhaps, but then just say that.

As Rich Hickey pointed out recently, "I can't read German; does that mean it's unreadable?"

[nivertech]

I disagree. While I don't know German, I can read German and even will understand some words and in some contexts even the general meaning of the sentence (i.e. restaurant menu or technical texts with large amount of English loanwords/terms).

You don't need to know Python, to understand it on the level of pseudo-code. You don't need to know Clojure to understand it on the level of S-expressions, etc.