[jbooth]

This post comes across like you're incredibly ideologically invested in Scala. I'd suggest that 'the future of computing' in any dimension will take a lot more from practicality and a lot less from theory or ideology.

Specifically, the point about encouraging recursion for more 'elegance' kinda bugs me there. Recursion is more of a natural fit than loops when walking a tree or graph, and is less so when iterating a list, set or map. It's about practicality.

If you're very interested in aesthetics, you'll never like java or even not-hate it. And that's ok.