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The Scala programming language, heralded by many of the Java cognoscenti as the language to replace Java, has garnered well-deserved praise as a sophisticated and capable language. But to many who have grown up in the tradition of C-C++-Java, Scala's hybrid imperative-functional design may be just too alien to their sensibilities. Given the history of popular programming languages, this is not a surprise. It was, after all, not Smalltalk but C++ that introduced OOP to the masses; and Java in no small way gained popularity by fixing many of the pains involved with programming in C++ while still retaining the same general style of syntax.