[dkhenry]

>Is it easy for programmers of all abilities to understand and use?

Thats a loaded question. I don't know about you but I have met alot of People who write VBScript in excel spreadsheets that call themselfes programmers. To say the language is bad because programmers of all abailities can't understand and use it will make all languages even the simplisest ones fail that test.

You should be asking can programmers that I will be asked to work with understand it and use it, however your answer to that question I think will say more about the programmers you hire / work with then it will about scala.