Scala and idioms

From the article : Is Scala really more complicated than Java? The same program can be written in Scala with different idioms:

Easy way:

val name = "Dick Wall"
println("""
Happy Birthday to you
Happy Birthday to you
Happy Birthday dear """ + name + """
Happy Birthday do you
""")

Procedural:

for (n <- 1 to 4) {   
  print("Happy Birthday")   
  if (n == 3)     
    print(" dear XXX")   
  else     
    print(" to you")   
  println
} 

Mixed:

(1 to 4).map {
    i => "Happy Birthday %s".format(if (i == 3) "Dear XXX" else "To You") 
  }.foreach println

Functional:

(List.make(4, "Happy birthday ")
  zip (List.tabulate(4, {
    case 2 => "dear friend"
    case _ => "to you"}))
) map (Function.tupled(_+_)) mkString ("\n")

More freedom ? hope Scala will avoid to be like Perl ! Not everybody will be able to maintain a Scala program. But that is also true with Java or anything. The complexity can be everywhere anyway, it is just more or less visible.

Read also: It's not the languages, but their idioms that matter.