<human>:  Why is the programming language called ‘Scala’?
<bot>: The name comes from the Italian word for scalawag. The Scala programming language was created by Martin Odersky, the creator of the Java programming language. Scala was designed to be a modern language with object-oriented programming features, which is similar to Java. However, it has a more functional style than Java, and a lot of Scala code is written in the Scala programming language.