Mr. Gosling attributes many strengths of Java to the fact that while designing it he and his team were working with technical writers, so that language, platform, and documentation were developed in parallel. Additionally, he attributes the need to explain stuff to writers as an important mechanism to influence the quality of the design itself. I wonder if this positive learning was taken benefit of with regards to Scala. Community-driven is great in principle, but after-the-fact, afterthought appearance that this approach creates is unfortunate.