Scala for the Python Geeks
Abhishek Tiwari · 2011
Scala is a JVM languages designed by Martin Odersky in early 2001 and it brings features of object-oriented programming and functional programming together. Scala is competing again several new JVM languages including but not limited to Groovy, Clojure, JRuby and Jython. Scala resembles Python (and Ruby) in many ways and as a Pythonist I found it real easy to switch on Scala.