I've often said the same thing to .NET advocates at Empathica. In terms of language constructs, C# is closer to Scala than Java is to Scala. However, IMHO Sca

I've often said the same thing to .NET advocates at Empathica. In terms of language constructs, C# is closer to Scala than Java is to Scala. However, IMHO Scala still offers more than both combined. :)