A very strong endorsement [1] for Scala came today from none other than James Strachan. He writes on his blog: [2] "I can honestly say if someone had shown me the Programming Scala [3] book by Martin Odersky, Lex Spoon & Bill Venners back in 2003 I'd probably have never created Groovy." Read all about it in his post! [1]
Links:
[1] http://macstrac.blogspot.com/2009/04/scala-as-long-term-replacement-for.html
[2] http://macstrac.blogspot.com
[3] http://www.amazon.com/Programming-Scala-Comprehensive-Step-step/dp/0981531601