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"After all, you wouldn't want to jump into Scala without learning Java first." Anyone have any opinions on this? I've never learned Scala but I didn't think Dojo : JavaScript as Scala : Java.

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I don't think that is implied in the article, so much as the fact(?) that fully understanding one requires a healthy understanding of the other.

Question mark b/c I don't know Scala, but as it is a JVM language my guess is that you would need to know a bit about Java and the JVM to really grok it.

Yep geekfactor is correct. The Scala-Java relationship is not analogous to Dojo-JS and this was not my intention.

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