[tostitos1979]

"two weeks after coming from[sic] Javascript"

Is this not an ad hominem attack? The original post writer joked about Scala syntax giving him a headache. I too felt the same way the three times I've briefly looked at Scala. I think some of the points made in that post were valid.

[scotth]

I think he's suggesting that the author of the blog post had limited programming language experience.

Even though it may not be fair, JavaScript does seem like a good language to pick for labelling someone that way, along with PHP.

[jeremyjh]

I'm very sure it isn't meant that way. Two weeks of exposure to Scala really is not nearly enough time to learn the language if you haven't any previous experience with strongly-typed functional languages. If you have deep exposure to both Java and Haskell then perhaps you could be productive in Scala in two weeks but even then if you wrote a rant like this your criticisms would still likely be on shakey grounds.