[Alind]

"Internally they had a lot of people with Ruby and PHP experience, so Scala was appealing. "

Anyone notice this ??? logical?

[spullara]

Scala looks a lot more like Ruby than Java does. It makes people feel more comfortable with the language. Also, a lot of the patterns, like collections, are more similar between Scala and Ruby than Java and Ruby. This will change with JDK 8, but for now it is true.