[badpun]

> A bigger issue is: As one gets better and better at computer programming, at some point the specific implementation language starts to matter less and less.

There are things that you can do in more advanced languages which are simply not possible in the simpler languages. In that sense, e.g. Java is lower-level language than Scala. Easier to learn and probably faster too, but just much less expressive. I've seen expert Scala dev doing some magic in 100-200 lines, which literally saved us thousands of lines of code that would be a nightmare to maintain and which would be a neccessary evil in a lower-level language.

[alexdowad]

Sure. I've done similar things myself, though the "advanced languages" which I'm expert in do not include Scala. This is a good example of what I'm talking about in the last paragraph of the comment which you are responding to.