[millerm]

This is just an observation and not meant to be an insult. I am just using your comment as an example of why I believe you are incorrect in your final statement.

In your post you have several misspelled words (smalles, programms,abbilities). In only a small number of lines of text you have many errors. A spellchecker is a wonderful tool too and you would have benefited from it. Imagine this now being hundreds, thousands, even millions of lines of code. A simple misspelling in code may lead to a compile error. It may actually be a call to a different function or perhaps just the wrong seed value was set. Saying that only thinking about something rather than using a tool that can help you is just a strange and dangerous advice. Not to mention quite expensive. I don't believe the point of this tool is to "debug your way into a new application".

Again, this I just my opinion and I used your comment as my example of how tooling is important. Your misspellings could have caused confusion or a complete misunderstanding of what you were trying to convey. The same problem exists in the programming world. If you say the wrong thing it's very difficult to find out what happened without digging in. Any tool that can help you achieve the answer faster than yourself is a good tool.

As for the actual Scala tool, I like the monster graphics. I think I need to ask them for a shirt.

[millerm]

Darn, even I have errors in there and I proofread it, argh.