Found an interesting blog about Scala

http://macstrac.blogspot.com/2009/04/scala-as-long-term-replacement-for.html

Tonight's Java developers meetup fully booked at 166 attendees. And the subject is Groovy on Grails. Groovy is something I never heard of, but the blurp it's an OOP-JVM scripting language. Sounds familiar to Taak.

So I do what I always do with something I don't know, I looked it up on Wikipedia. The code sample looked a lot like Scala, cool. Then there was the first citation on this quote from the author (James Strachan) of Groovy: "I can honestly say if someone had shown me the Programming in Scala book by Martin Odersky, Lex Spoon & Bill Venners back in 2003 I'd probably have never created Groovy."

Wow, I followed the link. Not only is huge proponent of Scala but also there are many great resources he had linked on his post.