What is Scala - Scala's design has been influenced by many programming languages and ideas in programming language research. Beginner Notes on SCALA. In fact, only a few features of Scala are genuinely new; most have been already applied in some form in other languages. Scala's innovations come primarily from how its constructs are put together. At the surface level, Scala adopts a large part of the syntax of Java and C#, which in turn borrowed most of their syntactic conventions from C and C++. Expressions, Statements, and blocks are mostly as in Java, as is the syntax of classes, packages, and imports.  Besides syntax, Scala adopts other elements of Java, such as its basic types, its class libraries, and its execution model. Scala's new version. Scala also owes much to other languages. Its uniform object model was pioneered by Smalltalk and taken up subsequently by Ruby.  Its idea of universal nesting (almost every construct in Scala can be nested inside any...