Alex Payne interviewed at OSCON 2010
summary
Scala presents itself as a hybrid object-functional language that combines everyday OOP ergonomics with functional features, and it runs on the JVM and a .NET CLR implementation, so teams move from scripts to large concurrent backends like information retrieval, log aggregation, and chat servers. Emerging languages highlighted include Frink with built-in unit-aware arithmetic, ioki which borrows from Lisp, Smalltalk, and IO as a JVM experiment, and Go as a pragmatic successor to C. Language authors often iterate out of frustration to build tools that fit their workflows.
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