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Summary: author chooses Scala.

Criteria 7. It should be a mature and time-tested language with active development, user base and lots of applications.
Scala fails criteria 7.

Scala or Haskell are the best ones. But what happend to Scala if there is not JVM?.

Interestingly, the JVM isn't at all dependent on Java the language. Java could go away entirely, and if developer's moved to other JVM-supported languages (like Scala, Groovy, JRuby, etc.) then... the JVM would still be actively used as intended. It runs bytecodes, which AFAIK are only linked to the Java language in that *originally* that was the only thing that compiled to this particular bytecode.

Dunno what dependencies Scala has on Java's core libraries -- none anymore, I think.

Related: Scala runs perfectly well -- sometimes better -- on various non-Sun(/Oracle) controlled versions of the JVM.

Used tools what the best envirorment.

From the article: "C# never really took off". Take a look around at monsterboard.com. Compared to C# on the criterion of "having taken off", Scala is not even in the driver's seat yet while C# is roaring on the highways.
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