As a follow up to my previous post. The languages are (in order): Java, Groovy, Scala, Ruby, and Python.

I find the Ruby example to be the most readable, however it does use a magic variable ‘ARGF’ to help its readability. What’s surprising to me is how I find Scala not that readable. At least, not that much more readable that Java. Its shorter, so that alone is helpful, However, its a little hard to see Scala as the replacement for Java if its not substantially more readable.