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To me Scala is not so much "post-functional". To me it is "mixed-paradigm", which in the mix as Scala presents it, is scaring me.

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I've heard it said that Scala is the new C++. But to me that doesn't sound bad at all. Sure, you can shoot yourself in the foot, but you can also design beautiful things, the choice is yours.

Bad is not the good word. Being pragmatic is not "bad". But I think C++ too is scary in the complexity that it brings to the table.

Why does it scare you?

A lot of keywords; too many to remember (a bit like C++). Simple things can have really scary types, because they facilitate both FP and OO ways of working with them. A very difficult conceptual model to wrap my head arround.

Can you give an example?

> A lot of keywords; too many to remember

Well, I think number of keywords and stuff like grammar size are pointless indicators, but Scala is pretty much at the bottom when you compare it to mainstream languages like Java or C#.

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