Thanks for the response. Given it's going to the JVM I should have been more prepared for verbosity. I did a bit more reading and with your suggestions it seems my initial reaction is mostly just shock of a change from what I'm used to. I'll do some more research and will probably mellow out a bit :) Any suggestions on ebooks or otherwise to get started? Cheers!
Java and Scala have essentially the same bytecode output as both compilers were written by Martin Odersky.
There are many links below: free books, PDFs, articles, videos, tutorials.
Or just Google "The busy Java developer's guide to Scala" (article), "Scala for the impatient" (PDF), "A Tour of Scala", "An Introduction to Scala for Java Developers" (about REPL) etc.
