[RyanZAG]

That's good for small teams/individual developers, but it really does become a nightmare in 5 years time. How do we know this? Go ask anybody who has had to maintain any kind of Perl code.

Scala is still very nice, but you need to exercise very heavy restraint so you don't end up with write-only code. (Java, and every other language, does admittedly have the same problem: I've seen Java code made up of so many levels of interfaces that tracking down what it does is almost impossible. Obfuscated C/C++ is a true terror. Ruby can get very nasty if you go 'off the rails'. etc etc.)

[dkhenry]

Right its a problem that exists in every language, there is nothing novel about scala that lends it to being any more cryptic then c++, other then there is a different set of rules as to what can be used where. Operator overloading in C++ is just as bad as scala, but most c++ programmers are used to it since they have seen it for a while. The first time I saw :/ I was really confused as to what it was since that's not an idiomatic C operator, but after seeing it in a few places you get used to the fact that its an operator and you read through it, just like I would if I saw a << in C++