In my efforts to teach myself Scala, I tried solving a problem I’ve tackled in various languages, 6510 assembly code (didn’t get far…), pl/sql, Java (with and without Drools) and Groovy among them. Usually I get bogged down in some detail of the language so I never get to reap any actual benefits of my efforts in daily life. The plus side of this never ending task is that by now I don’t have to sp