[fogus]

> My guess was that it was going to be the > container library, rather than the language itself.

This walks a thin line for sure and in Scala the line is almost microscopic. I'll keep it for now since my reasoning was the same as the Erlang->Scala influence. A core language library that is rarely viewed as other than a core feature.

[soc88]

I disagree with that. There is great attention between language features and functionality shipped in the standard library. This http://clojure.com/blog/2012/04/19/take5-daniel-spiewak.html might also be of interest.