Wow. If this is Charles Nutter I'm surprised no one has commented on this. I'm sure someone could make the argument that as there is ample evidence that humans are much less rational than we typically care to admit, that we are feeling animals who also happen to think rather than thinking animals who also happen to feel, so it is that the creator of what it is today easily the most popular non-Java JVM language could conceivably be "blinded" by their own personal investment in a "competing" language. But I think the much more interesting fact about this comment is that the commenter is basically a fucking programming god. And he thinks Scala is too complex. If I was Colebourne I would be posting on my blog, a very short post, basically just saying "Hey, all you bitches telling me 'Yeah, yeah, yeah, you wrote a little date library, WTF are you again?' Does Charles Nutter carry enough weight for you?"

My own personal viewpoint is that the Nutters and Colebournes are totally on the money. I remember reading a quote from Miguel DeAcaza talking about thread based concurrency programming models in the new N-core paradigm, he said it didn't scale, because "there are not enough PhDs in the world." Despite it's name, I don't think Martin's baby will in the end have lived up to it. Didn't scale, not enough PhDs in the world.