Recently we have seen a heated debate on whether Scala is too complicated for normal programmers or whether it’s in fact a rather simple language to program in. Here are two representative [1] blogposts [2] of the debate. The comments on the posts are also worth reading. I have written up some thoughts here [3].
Links:
[1] http://michid.wordpress.com/
[2] http://warpedjavaguy.wordpress.com/2010/08/02/the-scala-is-too-complex-conspiracy-1/
[3] http://lamp.epfl.ch/~odersky/blogs/isscalacomplex.html