For over a full year now, I’ve been looking into Scala. I have heard many people talk about it passionately and it just got me interested. Also a lot of big companies are investing in this new language. I just figured I had to check it out.

I have wrote a blogpost how I got started with Scala and the pitfall that I have faced.

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http://styledideas.be/blog/2011/12/18/first-steps-into-scala/

I'm also giving my very first steps with scala, just a simple script, check this article: http://playlatam.wordpress.com/2011/12/05/first-steps-with-scala-say-goodbye-to-bash-scripts/

Some readers argued that for simple tasks, it would be better to use bash or python, here's an article comparing scala with those scripting languages for those kind of tasks: http://playlatam.wordpress.com/2012/01/13/first-steps-with-scala-revisited-bash-and-python-strikes-back/

Even another revision of the script, now Scala is on par with python... check it ou here