:) you made my day, thanks, same goes to you!

p.s. I created http://scalatutorials.com/tour as an attempt to get the basics covered quickly, it's very early work in progress, but I got good feedback so far.

Also http://codebrew.io is a great place to start playing with the language without installing anything (it even has code completion, and runs in the browser, no installation needed)

Looking forward hearing your take on it after playing with it some more.