[kvtrew76557]

Overall this is a very weak and one-sided blog post. Even a simple search would have answered his questions about why Scala doesn't use Hindley Milner type inference:

http://www.scala-lang.org/old/node/4654

How this post got voted up to the front page really makes me wonder. "Clojure programmer gives Scala 1 star", what next "Ruby programmer gives Python 1 star"?